TY - BOOK ID - 14227194 TI - Art Unlimited? : Dynamics and Paradoxes of a Globalizing Art World. AU - Schultheis, Franz. AU - Single, Erwin. AU - KoĢfeler, Raphaela. AU - Mazzurana, Thomas. PY - 2016 SN - 3839432960 PB - Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Sociology KW - sociology of art KW - sociology KW - globalization KW - theory of art KW - art market KW - art KW - ethnography KW - china KW - Art Basel KW - Auction KW - Chinese art KW - Contemporary art KW - Hong Kong KW - Race and ethnicity in the United States Census KW - Shanghai UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14227194 AB - Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocentric distortions of the Western viewpoint? What social representations and uses of art can be identified? A research team from the University of St. Gallen has taken up such questions in an ethnographical field research project which enables the actors in this emergent and nonetheless already market-dominated art field to have their say. ER -