The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910-1925 - Couverture rigide

Alvi, Maddalena

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009600818 ISBN 13 : 9781009600811

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and political and economic upheaval, an integrated marketplace shaped by upper-class patrons broke down entirely. In its place, Maddalena Alvi argues, can be found the origins of a recognisably modern market of nationalised spheres driven by capitalist investment and speculation, yet open to wider social strata. Delving into auction records, memoirs, newspaper articles, financial and legal documents in six languages, Alvi explores these cultural and socio-economic developments across the British, French, and German markets, as well as trade spheres such as Russia and Scandinavia. 1914 marked the end of the European art market and cemented the connection between art and finance.

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Maddalena Alvi completed her Ph.D. in history at the University of Cambridge and has worked as a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009600818
• ISBN 13: 9781009600811
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 285
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie