Culture
Art Markets, Sociology and the Emotional Art Object
By , University of Plymouth (September 2009)
Section: Culture
Subject: Sociology.
Abstract
In its current state the sociology of art markets is characterized by an externalist approach to the analysis of art value in which the art object is the repository of beliefs, judgements given to it by art market actors. However, a review of the literature on art museums poses a challenge to this externalist approach by focusing on the mutually constitutive relationship between the art object, its exhibition and museum context, and viewers. The article reviews this literature exploring the advantages of this line of research for a meaningful sociology of art markets. It will argue for the need to overcome its current externalist focus with studies of the emotional dimension of art market objects as well as of the practices of art market actors.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00241.x
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