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Critical and creative responses to the global art market's influence on issues of value, patronage, institutional power, and public agency. Transnational markets hold sway over all aspects of contemporary culture, and that has transformed the environment of recent art, blurring the previously discrete realms of price and value, capital and creativity. Artists have responded not only critically but imaginatively to the many issues this raises, including the treatment of artworks as analogous to capital goods, the assertion that art's value is best measured by the market, and the notion that art and money share an internal logic. Some artists have investigated the market's pressures on creative democracy, its ubiquity, vulgarity, and fetishizing force, while others have embraced the creative possibilities the market offers. And for a decade curators and theorists have speculated on the implications of this new symbiosis between art and money, cultural and economic value. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources, in dialogue with artists' writings, this anthology traces the historic origins of these debates in different versions of modernism and surveys the relationships among art, value, and price; the evolution and influence of patronage; the actors and institutions of the art market; and the diversity of artistic practices that either criticize or embrace the conditions of the contemporary market.

Art --- Art patronage --- Economic aspects --- History --- Marketing --- 7.071 --- Kunst ; kunstenaars en beroep --- 7.01 --- Kunstenaars en kunstmarkt ; 20ste en 21ste eeuw --- Kunst en economie --- Arteconomy --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- prices --- economics --- financiële markten --- Contemporary [style of art] --- value [economic concept] --- patronage --- Iconographie --- Art contemporain --- Processus de création --- Création artistique --- Marché de l'art --- Galerie d'art --- Mécénat --- kunst --- 130.2 --- kunstmarkt --- 7.039 --- kunst en economie --- economie --- cultuurfilosofie --- kunsttheorie --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Art, Primitive --- Art - Economic aspects - History - 20th century --- Art - Economic aspects - History - 21st century --- Art - Marketing - History - 20th century --- Art - Marketing - History - 21st century --- Art patronage - History - 20th century --- Art patronage - History - 21st century --- Art value --- Sociologie de l'art --- Étude de marché --- Collectionneur --- Commerce

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Warhol's Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism's assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers' conditions in the 1970s -- these are among the antecedents of a renewed focus on the work of art: labor as artistic activity, as artistic method and as object of artistic engagement. In 2002, the 'Work Ethic' exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Baltimore Museum of Art took its cue from recent art to spotlight this earlier era of artistic practice in which activity became as valid as, and often dispensed with, object-production. Revealed through this prism was 'dematerialized' art's close and critical relation to the emergent information age's criteria of management, production and skill. By 2015, the Venice Biennale reflected artists' wider concern with global economic and social crises, centered on exploitative and precarious worlds of employment. Yet while art increasingly engages with human travail, work's significance in itself is seldom addressed by critics. This anthology explicitly investigates work in relation to contemporary art, surveying artistic strategies that grapple with the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy, a postproducer, a collaborator, a fabricator, a striker, an ethical campaigner, or would-be transformer of labor from oppression to liberation.

Contemporary [style of art] --- economics --- Art --- thema's in de kunst --- labor --- Kunst --- economie --- arbeid --- hedendaagse kunst --- Work --- Labor in art --- werk --- praktijk --- kunstenaarspraktijk --- praxis --- kunst --- 130.2 --- 7.039 --- 7.01 --- neoliberalisme --- activisme --- kunst en economie --- kunst en politiek --- 7.038/039 --- 7.038 --- cultuurfilosofie --- kunsttheorie --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Industry (Psychology) --- Method of work --- Work, Method of --- Human behavior --- Labor --- Occupations --- Work-life balance --- Economic aspects --- Beeldende kunstenaars ; beroep ; vak ; bedrijf ; 21ste eeuw --- Kunsttheorie ; over kunst en economie --- Arteconomy --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Art - Economic aspects