This edited collection offers an in-depth analysis of the complex and changing relationship between the arts and their markets. Highly relevant to almost any sociological exploration of the arts, this interaction has long been approached and studied. However, rapid and far-reaching economic changes have recently occurred. Through a number of new empirical case studies across multiple artistic, historic and geographical settings, this volume illuminates the developments of various art markets, and their sociological analyses. The contributions include chapters on artistic recognition and exclusion, integration and self-representation in the art market, sociocultural changes, the role of the gallery owner, and collectives, rankings, and constraints across the cultural industries. Drawing on research from Japan, Switzerland, France, Italy, China, the US, UK, and more, this rich and global perspective challenges current debates surrounding art and markets, and will be an important reference point for scholars and students across the sociology of arts, cultural sociology and culture economy.

This edited collection offers an in-depth analysis of the complex and changing relationship between the arts and their markets. Highly relevant to almost any sociological exploration of the arts, this interaction has long been approached and studied. However, rapid and far-reaching economic changes have recently occurred. Through a number of new empirical case studies across multiple artistic, historic and geographical settings, this volume illuminates the developments of various art markets, and their sociological analyses. The contributions include chapters on artistic recognition and exclusion, integration and self-representation in the art market, sociocultural changes, the role of the gallery owner, and collectives, rankings, and constraints across the cultural industries. Drawing on research from Japan, Switzerland, France, Italy, China, the US, UK, and more, this rich and global perspective challenges current debates surrounding art and markets, and will be an important reference point for scholars and students across the sociology of arts, cultural sociology and culture economy.

Kunst steht im Zentrum der Offentlichkeit. Im stadtischen Raum ausgestellte und diskutierte Skulpturen, Installationen und Aktionen, existierende oder nur geplante prestigetrachtige Kunst- und Kulturhauser wie Museen, Stadttheater oder Bibliotheken, offentliche Debatten um Globalisierung und/oder die Vermarktung von Werken und KunstlerInnen, Diskurse um Kunst und Kultur als mogliche AkteurInnen, aber auch AussenseiterInnen der virtuellen Revolution, Kunstwerke und Institutionen als Trager oder Projektionsflache von Erwartungen um Demokratisierung, soziale Koharenz oder politischen Intentionen: Kunst wird heute vielleicht mehr denn je offentlich ausgestellt, exponiert, diskutiert, kritisiert, auch idealisiert, im realen wie auch zunehmend im virtuellen, digitalen offentlichen Raum.Die Beitrage dieses Bandes untersuchen diesen Wandel anhand von Analysen einer ganzen Reihe von Kunstsparten und -bereichen (bildende Kunst, Performances und Kunstaktionen, Museen, Theater, Tanz, Musik, Literatur, Film usw.), neuer bzw. werdender Kunstformen (Street Art usw.) sowie von Aspekten wie Kunst und Kunstkritik in den Medien und der (Fach-) Presse, Kunst im Netz sowie werksoziologischen Auseinandersetzungen ."