Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics (Historical Materialism)
By Dave Beech.
Description
Shortlisted for the 2015 Deutscher Memorial Prize.Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy to be found in classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics. It provides a critical-historical survey of the theories of art's economic exceptionalism, of art as a merit good, and of the theories of art's commodification, the culture industry and real subsumption.Key debates on the economics of art, from the high prices artworks fetch at auction, to the controversies over public subsidy of the arts, the 'cost disease' of artistic production...
ISBN(s)
1608466388, 9781608466382
