The Sociology of Arts and Markets

<p>1. Introduction; Andrea Glauser, Patricia Holder, Thomas Mazzurana, Olivier Moeschler, Valérie Rolle and Franz Schultheis.- Part 1. Creators in the Market: Artists between Aesthetics, Critique and Trade.- 2. Patrick Modiano, Between the Fields of Limited Production and Large-Scale Production; Clara Lévy.- 3.&nbsp;A Star Down-to-Earth: On Social Criticism in Popular Culture; Désirée Waibel and Robert&nbsp;Schäfer.- Part 2. Artistic Career Paths: Trajectories and Inequalities in the Market.- 4.&nbsp;&nbsp;Art Workers, Inequality and the Labour Market: Values, Norms, and Alienation Across Three Generations of Artists;&nbsp;Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor.- 5.&nbsp;&nbsp;Visual Artists’ Professional Situations and Trajectories Between Institutions and the Market;&nbsp;Pierre Bataille, Johannes M. Hedinger and Olivier Moeschler.- 6.&nbsp;The Art Market – Art’s Incomplete Mirror: Artistic Action’s Guiding Principle and their Consequences for the Art Market;&nbsp;Linda Dürkop-Henseling.- Part 3.&nbsp;The Economy of Idiosyncrasy: Art Dealers and the Commodification of Individuality.- 7.&nbsp;When Market Promotes Individuality: Arts in Early Modern Japan from the Macrosociological Perspective;&nbsp;Takemitsu Morikawa.- 8.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Art Market Facing New Connoisseurship: The Reception of Pieter Brueghel the Younger at Auction;&nbsp;Anne-Sophie Radermecker.- 9.&nbsp;&nbsp;Collective-Artists: Actors on the Margins of the Global Field of Contemporary Art;&nbsp;Séverine Marguin.- Part 4.&nbsp;Marketable Art: Galleries and Gallery Owners as Central Intermediaries.- 10.&nbsp;Hierarchies and Divisions in the Subfield of Gallery Owners: A Research on Art Galleries in Milan;&nbsp;Anna Uboldi.- 11.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mapping the Professional Self-Concepts of Gallery Owners: A Typology;&nbsp;Michael Gautier.- 12.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Diffusion of Galleries in China (1991-2016);&nbsp;Linzhi Zhang.- Part 5.&nbsp;Market Assessments: The Increasing Role of Art Rankings.- 13.&nbsp;MagicIndex on the Wall: Who is the Most Valuable Artist of Them All?;&nbsp;Nathalie Moureau.- 14. Can Contemporary Art Galleries Be Ranked? A Sociological Attempt from the Paris Case;&nbsp;Alain Quemin.- Part 6.&nbsp;Features of the Art Market in Advanced Capitalism: From Established to New Patterns? - 15.&nbsp;The Art Fair Boom and its Contradictions;&nbsp;Erwin Single.- 16.&nbsp;&nbsp;Art Meets Capitalism: In Praise of Promising Potentialities;&nbsp;Denis Hänzi.- 17.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Art, the Markets, and Sociology: Concluding Remarks;&nbsp;Franz Schultheis.</p>