NEWS CATALOG COLLECTIONS AUTHORS FOREIGN RIGHTS + Alain Quemin The world of galleries Contemporary art, market structure and internationalization Literary Arts and Essays Political science and sociology € 28.00 BUY THE BOOK (Available in digital) READ AN EXCERPT In a time of globalization, marked by the rise of major international fairs, what transformations have affected the contemporary art market and its players? Leading from Paris to New York, via London, Berlin, Los Angeles but also Hong Kong, Venice and Basel, this survey outlines the new geography of galleries and delivers an ethnography of the daily work of gallery owners and their collaborators. Penetrating the invisible “backstage”, it reveals the type of relationships that professionals forge with collectors, the role of friendship - and champagne - in this commercial activity which paradoxically runs the constant risk of being disqualified as “commercial”. ". It thus highlights the place of galleries, alongside auction houses, public institutions and critics, in the creation of the “value” of art today and their ever-growing role in the definition of art. 'contemporary art. This large-scale research does not hesitate to face sensitive questions: is it possible to objectify the "quality" of galleries which, for the largest of them, now compete with museums? How to prioritize them, establish a ranking? And, therefore, what are the “best” contemporary art galleries to date, in France and in the world? To all these questions, and many others, this work provides unprecedented answers, by combining the various tools of sociological analysis with an intimate knowledge that only makes possible the long-term frequentation, in insider , of a world. unrecognized. AUTHOR (S) DETAILS NEWSPAPER Alain Quemin University professor in sociology, attached to GEMASS - Sorbonne University, senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, also a regular contributor for ten years to the artistic press, Alain Quemin has notably published Les Stars de l'art contemporain (CNRS Éditions , 2013). FROM THE SAME AUTHOR Alain Quemin The stars of contemporary art YOU WILL LIKE ALSO Corinne Benestroff Jorge Semprun Stephane Laurent The gesture & the thought Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Anne Herschberg Pierrot The work as a process Nedim Gursel The second life of Muhammad THE MEDIA ARE TALKING ABOUT IT Dominique Garcia, Jeremy Perrodeau The Gauls with the naked eye Pierre Gonneau Novgorod Alain Quemin The world of galleries Philippe Grandcolas The smile of the pangolin Search the site General catalog Anthropology and contemporary worlds Literary Arts and Essays Biology and health Chemistry Ecology, environment, earth sciences Right economy Geography, territories Story History of science Linguistic Mathematics Philosophy and History of Ideas Physics and Astrophysics Prehistory International relationships Journals Engineering Sciences Political science and sociology Religious sciences Society SUBSCRIBE TO THE CNRS EDITIONS NEWSLETTER! New arrivals Forbidden City, Imperial Palaces and Royal Courts RA 20 - The mine of Ri (Orne) French Yearbook of International Law 66 - 2020 African Antiquities 57 CNRS ÉDITIONS > CATALOG > LITERARY ARTS AND ESSAYS > THE WORLD OF GALLERIES THEMES Story Philosophy Journals Right economy Mathematics JOURNALS Anatoli HERMES Gallia Science Notebooks All journals COLLECTIONS Biblis CNRS Alpha The Great Voices of Research Photographic documentation All the collections SOCIAL NETWORKS Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn © CNRS EDITIONS 2021 Legal Notice Cookies policy Consent Foreign rights Who are we ? Contact We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies. Consent ACCEPT