Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The singularity of the art market, as it has developed since the 19th century, acts as a screen to capture older forms of transactions involving art. Using the example of art, this article reconstructs the evolution of artistic markets in the long term history of European art, from the 14th to the 18th century. Confronted with a model seeking to go back to the origins of an art market at the end of the Middle Ages in order to then seize upon the overwhelming rise in power according to a view borrowed from Neoclassical theories of the economy, we will emphasize the discontinuities and the diversity of the models of markets in the artistic domain. This diversity concerns the institutions, the objects of the transaction, as well as the value assigned to art. This pluralization of the art market, far from denying the economic dimension, will make it possible to compare an approach of art history with that of historians of economy and of sociologists of conception, in order to demonstrate to what measure art has been one of the “principles of fermentation” of capitalism.
Source: Revue de l Art
DOI: 10.3917/rda.206.0007
Authors: Étienne Anheim, Charlotte Guichard
Language: French
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4367276354