Art, Value, and Market Practices in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century

Economic Imperialists Attack! What Sociologists Should Do?

“…В Ж.-К. Анью в своей книге по истории рынка и театра замечает: «Эстетизм и экономизм надежно разделили социальный мир, переведя культурный и рыночный обмены в разные дисциплинарные области» [Marchi 1994;Agnew 1986: 6] 7 . Еще точнее, в гуманитарных науках цены либо нарушают чистоту некалькулируемой ценности искусства («модель загрязнения»), либо локализуются в отдельной от ценностей сфере («модель независимых сфер»).…”

Art Auctions and Art Investment in the Golden Age of British Painting

“…Our work is related to a growing body of literature on historical art markets emphasizing the economic determinants of artistic production and innovation. Since the pioneering work of Montias (), interdisciplinary research in economic history and cultural economics, has been focused on the organization of artistic markets in Italy (for instance, see Spear and Sohm, ; Etro and Pagani, ; Pinchera, ; Etro et al ., ; Borowiecki, ), the Netherlands (Montias, ; De Marchi and Van Miegroet, ; Montias, ; Etro and Stepanova, ), Spain (Etro and Stepanova, ), England ( Cowan, ; Bayer and Page, ) and France (Etro and Stepanova, ). These studies have pointed out a number of interesting stylized facts and have provided descriptive statistics on the paintings traded by painters, owned by collectors or traded in auctions between the XVII and XIX century .…”