Art Auctions

Spectacle and Value in the 21st Century

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Kathryn Brown

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Hardback

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Hot Topics in the Art World

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Releases 27 Jun 2024

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This accessible new book offers a fresh view of art auctions, exploring their multifaceted role in today’s international art market and their transformation into spectacular theatres of the contemporary art world. From glittering black-tie events to the anonymity of the digital realm, auctions stage the creation of value and can make or break artists’ careers. They are a strange phenomenon: relics from the 18th century which remain at the heart of the art market. And yet art auctions have undergone huge change in the past decades, adapting to online formats, encroaching on territory which was once the preserve of galleries, and expanding ruthlessly into new regions and categories. Kathryn Brown's incisive new survey assesses the ongoing relevance of auctions to contemporary art markets and discusses the opportunities, controversies and conflicts of value to which they give rise.

Author Biography:

Kathryn Brown is Reader in Art Histories, Markets and Digital Heritage at Loughborough University. Her publications include Dialogues with Degas: Influence and Antagonism in Contemporary Art, Matisse's Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist's Book, and Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890.

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June 27th, 2024

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