{"product_id":"9781968417024","title":"Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eCastellani, Valentina\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGagosian \/ Rizzoli\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9\/8\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrading Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e traces the   evolution of the Western art market from the medieval era to the present day,   examining how social, cultural, religious, and economic circumstances have informed   distinct models of art production, validation, and valuation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInextricably   linked to the history of art are the stories of its markets.\u003ci\u003e Trading   Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the evolution of the Western art market from the   medieval era to the present day. In thirteen chapters informed by her   expertise as a veteran of Sotheby’s auction house and Gagosian gallery,   Valentina Castellani analyzes how the social, cultural, religious, and   economic circumstances of distinct historical periods have defined disparate   models of art production, validation, and valuation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCastellani   traces developments from the Middle Ages and Renaissance—when the patronage   of the Church and aristocracy steered all art production—to the birth of the   first free market for art during the Dutch Golden Age, and the imposition of   state control by the Academies and royal manufactories during the absolute   monarchy of Louis XIV. She examines the genesis of the gallery system, which   emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century alongside Impressionism,   was fortified by the pioneering dealers of modernism and postwar art as the   art world’s epicenter shifted from Paris to New York, and remains ascendant   today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Castellani recounts, the art market’s scope has continued to grow, with   African American artists of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond establishing   alternative models to counteract their exclusion from the globally dominant   art world, Damien Hirst selling new work at auction in 2008 as a challenge to   the gallery system, contemporary commercial galleries taking on the role of   museums by staging blockbuster exhibitions of historical art, and the   expansion of infrastructures in China and the Middle East. Post-pandemic   social and cultural changes, the rise of digital technologies, and   generational shifts in collector demographics hold out the promise of a more   decentralized, diverse, and democratic art world that offers overdue critical   and market attention to previously marginalized women and Black artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCastellani’s   chronicles of these various histories, peppered with anecdotes spotlighting   game-changing characters and record-shattering sales, provide insight into   the mechanisms that have shaped the art market as we know it today.","brand":"Gagosian \/ Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48378837401855,"sku":"9781968417024","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781968417024_s600x595.jpg?v=1777307252","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781968417024","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}