Economics of Visual Art

Amy Whitaker is an assistant professor in Visual Arts Administration at New York University and author of award-winning books Museum Legs and Art Thinking.

• Preface; Introduction; 1. Markets; 2. Cost; 3. Price; 4. Structure; 5. Failure; 6. Power; 7. Labor; 8. Property; 9. Investment; 10. Systems.

'In spite of the romantic ideal that creative expression should exist independently of calculation and exchange, art and artists are intimately entangled in markets. In this lucid and wide-ranging book, Amy Whitaker combines incisive economic analysis with great insight to and sympathy with the world inhabited by artists. This is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand a unique sphere of economic and cultural life.' William Davies, University of London, author of Nervous States and The Limits of Neoliberalism