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Cultures of Society: Art Unlimited?

Dynamics and Paradoxes of a Globalizing Art World

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Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocentric distortions of the Western viewpoint? What social representations and uses of art can be identified? A research team from the University of St. Gallen has taken up such questions in an ethnographical field research project which enables the actors in this emergent and nonetheless already market-dominated art field to have their say.

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Cultures of Society: Art Unlimited?, Franz Schultheis, Erwin Single, Raphaela Köfeler, Thomas Mazzurana

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2016
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Titolo
Cultures of Society: Art Unlimited?
Sottotitolo
Dynamics and Paradoxes of a Globalizing Art World
Lingua
Inglese
Editore
transcript
Pubblicato
2016
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In brossura
Pagine
264
ISBN10
3837632962
ISBN13
9783837632965
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Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocentric distortions of the Western viewpoint? What social representations and uses of art can be identified? A research team from the University of St. Gallen has taken up such questions in an ethnographical field research project which enables the actors in this emergent and nonetheless already market-dominated art field to have their say.