High Art Down Home: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market

by Stuart Plattner

Book Overview

How do 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226670821
• ISBN13: 9780226670829
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Highly Influential

This book was highly influential to me, and is still one of my favorite books. I would recommend this book to anyone involved in the art world. It's a good read and you will learn a lot. Very insightful!