Capital Culture A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(S) of Art

The status of art has undergone a tremendous shift in the last twenty years. While the value of a work of art once came from a dynamic but fundamentally stable consensus regarding its social and aesthetic status within its culture, this has increasingly been replaced by a more controversial role for art as a high-priced commodity in international markets - we live in a world where French-owned Van Goghs are sold in London to the Japanese for tens of millions of American dollars. In Capital Culture leading cultural critics, art theorists and artists re-examine the nature of artistic value, bringing historical and critical perspectives to bear on contemporary controversies surrounding national identity, political economy, and government policy.Berland, Jody is the author of 'Capital Culture A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(S) of Art' with ISBN 9780773517264 and ISBN 077351726X.