Cosmopolitan Canvases

By Olav Velthuis (editor), Stefano Baia Curioni (editor),

Book cover of Cosmopolitan Canvases: The Globalization of Markets for Contemporary Art

Book description

Since the late 1990s, contemporary art markets have emerged rapidly outside of Europe and the United States. China is r s1the world's second largest art market. In counties as diverse as Brazil, Turkey and India, modern and contemporary art has been recognized as a source of status, or a potential…

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1 author picked Cosmopolitan Canvases as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book provides a primer on the global art market from scholars around the world.

The issues addressed include economic integration of multiple circuits/regional markets, the rise of markets in Asia, online marketplaces, and the importance of galleries and collectives to propel artists to success. The biggest advantage to this work is that it is the first book to consider global art markets from divergent perspectives.

While there remains a real center to the art world analyzed in this volume, you can start to see how new regions and countries are charging forward, transforming the domain of contemporary art in…

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