The art market is worth billions globally, despite the effects of the Covid-19 health pandemic. This book brings together a strong cast of contributors to explore contemporary and historical themes.
Readers of the book will gain awareness of how historical foundations of arts markets continue to impact on contemporary global developments, while transformational digital technology shakes up the art world. With new insights into emerging arts markets, the book also covers themes and phenomena such as NFTs, secrecy, platforms, and financialization in the arts.
The result is a book that will prove valuable reading for scholars involved in art markets studies.
The art market is worth billions globally, despite the effects of the Covid-19 health pandemic. This book brings together a strong cast of contributors to explore contemporary and historical themes.
1. Introduction to Global Art Markets Iain Robertson, Derrick Chong,
Luķs U. Afonso Part I. History of art markets
2. World trade and artistic
exchanges in early globalization: Lisbon c.1500 Luķs U. Afonso
3. A mass
market for the visual arts: the golden age of Dutch painting during the
seventeenth century Filip Vermeylen
4. The French provinces in the eighteenth
century: a desert for the art market? Sophie Raux
5. Collecting patterns for
Chinese art: 1600-1935 Nick Pearce
6. Dealer networks: the global market for
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism from 1870 until 1930 Frances Fowle
7.
When the dealer shapes demand: Stefano Bardini, master influencer Lynn
Catterson
8. Regulating the wartime Dutch art market Jeroen Euwe Part II. New
geographies and challenges facing art markets
9. Caribbean contemporary art:
from (neo)colonial outpost to creative eco/system Carlos Garrido Castellano
10. Heirs of the feathered serpent: the emergence of indigenous contemporary
art in Brazil René Lommez Gomes
11. Western auction houses global expansion
Natasha Degen
12. Singapores aspirations to be a global art market hub Anita
Archer
13. How do emerging artists enter the art market? A view from France
Jérōme Glicenstein
14. Collecting contemporary art in Russia Marina Maximova
15. The art market out of sight John Zarobell Part III. Digitalization and
financialization of art markets
16. Web3 and the global art market:
smokescreens and opportunities Nicolas Galley
17. Art market innovation
Loizos Petrides
18. Platformisation and transparency in the global art market
Marios Samdanis
19. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and the emergence of a new
category in Sothebys and Christies global auction market Marta Herrero &
Georgia Gerson
20. Disruptive innovation or innovation delusion? Impact of
NFTs on the Korean art market Minha Lee & Woongjo Chang
21. Digital art and
value creation: exploring art market dynamics Melanie Fasche
22. On returns
and risks in art auction markets Yuexin Li & Luc Renneboog
23. Art as an
asset class and as a component of a financial portfolio Kim Oosterlinck
Iain Robertson is Professor of Art and Cultural Management at Hongik University, South Korea.
Derrick Chong is Senior Lecturer in Business and Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Luķs U. Afonso is Senior Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.