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• catalog abstract ""There is, perhaps, no market commodity in the world whose value is so elusive as a work of art. The costs of production, materials, and labor have nothing to do with fixing its price. Although a piece of art is an archetypally symbolic good, its economic worth depends upon an extraordinarily arbitrary and ephemeral array of social and cultural actors. How, then, do the many artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market?" "To answer this question, Stuart Plattner eschews the spotlights and media-hype of glitzy New York galleries, and focuses instead upon the more localized, and much more typical, world of the St. Louis art scene. What emerges is the most comprehensive description ever published of a contemporary regional avant-garde center, where noble aesthetic ambitions compete with the exigencies of economic survival. Plattner's skillful use of in-depth interviews enables the market's key participants to speak for themselves, giving voice to the many frustrations and rewards, motivations and constraints that influence their interactions with their work, the market, and each other. Ultimately it becomes clear that, in various and diverse ways, they are all tacitly invested - psychologically, economically, and socially - in the mystification of value of the work of art." "With refreshing realism and honesty, Plattner develops a finely textured and sympathetic portrait of a unique kind of economic community, one whose very existence is staked on the paradox of art as commodity."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b10716064.
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description ""There is, perhaps, no market commodity in the world whose value is so elusive as a work of art. The costs of production, materials, and labor have nothing to do with fixing its price. Although a piece of art is an archetypally symbolic good, its economic worth depends upon an extraordinarily arbitrary and ephemeral array of social and cultural actors. How, then, do the many artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market?" "To answer this question, Stuart Plattner eschews the spotlights and media-hype of glitzy New York galleries, and focuses instead upon the more localized, and much more typical, world of the St. Louis art scene. What emerges is the most comprehensive description ever published of a contemporary regional avant-garde center, where noble aesthetic ambitions compete with the exigencies of economic survival. Plattner's skillful use of in-depth interviews enables the market's key participants to speak for themselves, giving voice to the many frustrations and rewards, motivations and constraints that influence their interactions with their work, the market, and each other. Ultimately it becomes clear that, in various and diverse ways, they are all tacitly invested - psychologically, economically, and socially - in the mystification of value of the work of art." "With refreshing realism and honesty, Plattner develops a finely textured and sympathetic portrait of a unique kind of economic community, one whose very existence is staked on the paradox of art as commodity."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Rise of the Modern Art Market -- 3. St. Louis Metropolitan Area -- 4. Artists -- 5. Dealers -- 6. Collectors -- 7. Conclusion -- App. 1. Glossary of Art Speech -- App. 2. Note on Art and Craft -- App. 3. Art as Investment -- App. 4.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-245) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 250 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0226670821 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0226670848 (paper : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
• catalog spatial "Missouri Saint Louis Region".
• catalog spatial "Missouri Saint Louis Region.".
• catalog spatial "Missouri".
• catalog spatial "Missouri.".
• catalog subject "306.4/7 20".
• catalog subject "Art Collectors and collecting Missouri Saint Louis Region.".
• catalog subject "Art Collectors and collecting Missouri.".
• catalog subject "Art Economic aspects Missouri Saint Louis Region.".
• catalog subject "Art Economic aspects Missouri.".
• catalog subject "Art Missouri Marketing.".
• catalog subject "Art Missouri Saint Louis Region Marketing.".
• catalog subject "N8600 .P59 1996".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Rise of the Modern Art Market -- 3. St. Louis Metropolitan Area -- 4. Artists -- 5. Dealers -- 6. Collectors -- 7. Conclusion -- App. 1. Glossary of Art Speech -- App. 2. Note on Art and Craft -- App. 3. Art as Investment -- App. 4.".
• catalog title "High art down home : an economic ethnography of a local art market / Stuart Plattner.".
• catalog type "text".