Art world prestige
By: Leonard Diepeveen and Timothy Van Laar
Contributors: Van Laar, Timothy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780199913985
Subjects: Art and society; Prestige; Group values (Sociology)
Description: "Illustrated with artwork by David Park, Jorge Pardo, Gerhard Richter, Anish Kapoor, Cecily Brown, Howard Finster, and others, Artworld prestige provides an engaging guide to the changes, debates, and shifts that animate aesthetic judgments"--Jacket, page [3].
Table of contents: title: When good art goes bad: a theory of prestige; title: Eclectic practices: abstraction, figuration, and pluralism; title: Cultural obituaries and the status of painting; title: Signs of pleasure; title: Self-consciousness and authenticity.