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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816825703321

Titolo

Sublime economy [[electronic resource] ] : on the intersection of art and economics / / edited by Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers and Stephen E. Cullenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-134-00291-2

1-281-89990-9

9786611899905

0-203-89057-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 111

Altri autori (Persone)

AmariglioJack

ChildersJoseph W

CullenbergStephen

Disciplina

330.01

Soggetti

Economics - Philosophy

Art and society - Economic aspects

Value

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, illustrations, and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sublime economy: on the intersection of art and economics; Part I "Tokens of eccentricity": Value and the aesthetic representation of economy; 1 Tracing the economic: Modern art's construction of economic value; 2 Meaning to say...; 3 Use, value, aesthetics: Gambling with difference/speculating with value; Part II Sublime intercourse: Economics meets aesthetics (and vice versa); 4 Reluctant partners: Aesthetic and market value, 1708-1871

5 On the contemporaneousness of Roger de Piles' Balance des Peintres6 How aesthetics and economics met in voc ed; 7 Economics meets esthetics in the Bloomsbury Group; 8 Individualism, civilization, and national character in market democracies; 9 Art, fleeing from capitalism: A slightly disputatious interview/conversation; Part III Name your price; 10 Imaginary currencies: Contemporary art on the market-



critique, confirmation, or play; 11 The sociology of the new art gallery scene in Chelsea, Manhattan; 12 The lives of cultural goods; Part IV Moral economies and the romance of money

13 The rhetoric of prostitution14 A heap of worthless fragments: The nineteenth-century literary revaluation of the classical statue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of ""the economy"" as sublime. It might even be said that much of the emergence of a distinctly ""modern"" art in the West is inextricably linked to the perception of art's own autonomy and, therefore, its privileged, mostly critical, gaze at the terrible mixture of wonder and horror of capitalist economic practices and institutions. The premise of this collection is that despite this perceptual sharing, ""sublime economy"" has yet to be investigated in a purely c