Art and Money

By: Peter Stupples

Art and money have much in common. Both are spheres of social activity that carry symbolic values. A coin is simply a piece of metal, stamped with signs to give it symbolic meaning, to give it a value, a value that changes with the vicissitudes of its economic life, or, when no longer legal tender, with its life as a collectable. A painting is a piece of canvas, stretched on a frame to make it taut, which is then covered with pigment, brushed with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443876216
• ISBN13: 9781443876216
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.