History of the Western Art Market. A source book of writings on artists, dealers and markets

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Collected essays. 'The aim of this reader is to present a wide ranging set of texts from a variety of academic perspectives on the [international] art market and its participants'. In doing so, it is responding to 'the study of the art market as a promising new field within art history, a natural outgrowth of the renewed interest of art historians in the social and economic contexts in which artworks are produced'. Has sections: 'Art in the commercial world'; 'Artists and collectors in the market for art'; 'The Italian city states'; 'Antwerp'; 'Amsterdam'; ''Germany and Spain'; 'London'; ''Paris'; 'Art consumption in industrial America'; 'New York'; 'Global art market'. The London section [pp204-45] contains 11 essays on commercial aspects