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Art Unlimited? Dynamics and Paradoxes of a Globalizing Art World
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Abstract Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocent... view more
Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocentric distortions of the Western viewpoint? What social representations and uses of art can be identified? A research team from the University of St. Gallen has taken up such questions in an ethnographical field research project which enables the actors in this emergent and nonetheless already market-dominated art field to have their say.... view less
Keywords
art; market; ethnography; globalization; sociology of art
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
Art; Art Market; China; Ethnography; Globalization; Sociology; Sociology of Art; Theory of Art
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
264 p.
Series
Kulturen der Gesellschaft, 20
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432969
ISBN
978-3-8394-3296-9
Status
Published Version; reviewed