High Art Down Home
Subtitle: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 25, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780226670843
Subjects: Anthropology; Art funding, patronage & sponsorship; Art sales & auctioneering; Industry & Industrial Studies; Microeconomics; Art & Art Instruction; Art; USA; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Fine Arts; Collectors and collecting; Economic aspects; Marketing; Missouri; Saint Louis Region
First sentence: In the summer of 1990 Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at Christie's New York auction house to a Japanese buyer for $82.5 million.