Larissa Buchholz, The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy
Larissa Buchholz
The Global Rules of Art
The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy
Princeton University Press
2022
Présentation de l'éditeur
Prior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international” contemporary
art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and
Western Europe, while cultural agents from other parts of the world
often found themselves on the margins. The Global Rules of Art
examines how this discriminatory situation has changed in recent
decades. Drawing from abundant sources—including objective indicators
from more than one hundred countries, multiple institutional histories
and discourses, extensive fieldwork, and interviews with artists,
critics, curators, gallerists, and auction house agents—Larissa Buchholz
examines the emergence of a world-spanning art field whose logics have
increasingly become defined in global terms.
Deftly blending comprehensive historical analyses with illuminating case studies, The Global Rules of Art
breaks new ground in its exploration of valuation and how cultural
hierarchies take shape in a global context. The book’s innovative global
field approach will appeal to scholars in the sociology of art,
cultural and economic sociology, interdisciplinary global studies, and
anyone interested in the dynamics of global art and culture.
Larissa Buchholz is assistant professor of communication studies
and, by courtesy, sociology at Northwestern University. She was a junior
fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, the first woman
elected from her discipline. She serves on the editorial board of Sociological Theory and is an affiliated faculty member of the Critical Realism Network at Yale University.
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