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Pamela M. Fletcher - The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850–1939 - 9780719084614 - V9780719084614
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The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850–1939

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Description for The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850–1939 Paperback. The first study of how the art market developed in London and made the city the capital of the international trade in art. Editor(s): Fletcher, Pamela M.; Helmreich, Anne. Num Pages: 368 pages, 47 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJ; ABQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 556.

Now available in paperback for the first time, this study of the modern London art market establishes the central importance of London for the development of the modern retail market in fine art. Leading experts track the emergence and development of the structures and practices that have come to characterize the commercial art system, including the commercial art gallery, the professional dealer, the exhibition cycle and its accompanying rhetoric of press coverage and publicity, and an international network for the circulation of goods.

This new commercial system involved a massive transformation of the experience of viewing art; of ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
553g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719084614
SKU
V9780719084614
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99-2

About Pamela M. Fletcher
Pamela Fletcher is Associate Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College. Anne Helmreich is Senior Program Officer at the Getty Foundation -- .

Reviews for The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850–1939
Andrew Stephenson contributes a gem of an essay, discussing the impact of social changes in the interwar period, the move of the prosperous middle classes into flats rather than houses, the rising demands of the newly independent single woman, and the way in which the art trade reacted to these demands." "This is an important book, distinguished both by ... Read more

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