Auction Prices and the Evolution of Taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age Painting (1642–2011) English: The Value of Taste - Couverture rigide

Carpreau, Peter

 
9781909400481: Auction Prices and the Evolution of Taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age Painting (1642–2011) English: The Value of Taste
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ISBN 10 : 1909400483 ISBN 13 : 9781909400481
Editeur : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Taste is a well known but largely underestimated phenomenon. Yet it is one of the factors that has shaped our knowledge and view of art. Why is Rembrandt van Rijn today considered to be one of the greatest painters in European art while Gerard de Lairesse, Rembrandt's younger contemporary and one of the best-selling painters of his day, is now forgotten? This book is a systematic and quantitative study of taste. More specifically it focuses on the painters of the seventeenth-century Low Countries and follows the changes in consumer evaluation of them from the seventeenth century up to 2008. Proceeding from the same starting point as Gerald Reitlinger in his monumental The Economics of Taste, it uses the prices paintings have fetched at auction as a basis for tracing trends in the taste of the art-buying public. Whereas Reitlinger's approach was rather intuitive, this study develops a sound methodological basis for researching taste and auction prices. It is not only quantitative methods and properties of auction prices that require a specific approach: in historical research quantitative data and analyses are only reliable when they can also be tested against qualitative or historical sources. Based on a statistical analysis, various 'universal' painters, such as Rubens and Rembrandt, are defined. In addition, however, specific genres such as landscape, portrait, history painting, and so on are analysed. In the case of eighty-three painters there is sufficient information to allow the profiling of individual price trends. But other quantitative data drawn from the examination of collections or catalogues raisonnes prove an additional source of information when compared with auction prices. This book shows what big data and statistics can mean to our understanding of art.

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Éditeur
Harvey Miller Publishers
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1909400483
ISBN 13 
9781909400481
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
295
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