Stephanie Dieckvoss is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. Her research examines contemporary art markets with a particular focus on emerging and alternative market models, institutional dynamics, spatial enquiries, and the evolving relationships between art and commerce. She has over 15 years' experience of working in commercial art galleries and art fairs in Germany, France and the US and is the art-market correspondent for the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt. Tom Stammers is Reader in Art and Cultural History at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. He is a cultural historian of modern France and modern Europe who has published widely on the history of collecting, the art market, museums, connoisseurship, the historiography of art and the material legacies of the French Revolution. Tom and Stephanie are Co-Convenors of the Master's Programme in Art and Business at the Courtauld Institute, University of London.
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Early Modern Entrepreneurship: Artists, Patrons and Agents in the 17th Century; Spotlight: Artists Across Empires and Global Trade Routes; 2. A Clubbable World: Art in the 18th-Century Metropolis; Spotlight: Women Artists and Entrepreneurs; 3. A Multi-Polar Model: Nationalism and Internationalism in 19th-Century Art Worlds; Spotlight: Exoticism and Exhibitionism at the World's Fairs; 4. A Time of Crisis: The Avant-Gardes and their Enemies in the Early 20th Century; Spotlight: Collecting, Curating and Selling 'Tribal' Art; 5. A Brave New World: New York and the Post-War Art Market; Spotlight: The Black Art Scene in New York; 6. Contemporary Art Rules the World: 1980s to 2000; Spotlight: The AIDS Crisis and the Art Market; 7. 21st Century: Globalisation and its Discontent; Spotlight: The Short-Lived NFT Bubble; Conclusion; Notes; Further Reading; Index