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Museums and wealth : the politics of contemporary art collections /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaked, Nizan (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Subjects:
Art museums > Economic aspects.
Art, Modern > Colelctors and collecting.
Common good > Economic aspects.
Public interest > Economic aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Halftitle page
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The study and its methodology
  • World-systems periodization: racial capitalism
  • What is a totalizing perspective?
  • Chapter overview
  • Chapter 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: ART AND IMPERIALISMI
  • The ambiguous status of American art museums
  • The Fisher collection deal: what we know and what are we asking
  • Conflicting agendas of private and public interest
  • The politics and aesthetics of private interest
  • Art and imperialism
  • Fighting for crumbs: problems with defense of public money in its current form
  • "Grateful for small abuses": diminishing public support
  • Arts funding and diversity
  • Art finance and wealth management: questioning the public merit of private collections
  • Against market criteria
  • Private collections: a curatorial history perspective on the question of quality criteria
  • Neo-expressionism in San Francisco: the conservatism of Georg Baselitz
  • Formulas for beauty: Gerhard Richter's cottage industry of singular-multiples
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 THE SUBSTANCE OF SYMBOLIC VALUE: MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTING
  • Introduction: the private appropriation of public value
  • Institutional value: price advantages for collector/trustees
  • The private metabolism of a public good
  • Art's role in the financial growth regime
  • The financialization of art
  • History and legal theory of the public/private distinction
  • The nonprofit sector as shadow state
  • Tax monies: private or public
  • A brief history of the legal distinction between the private and public realms
  • Symbolic value and ideology
  • Bourdieu's symbolic capital
  • An economic theory of art's ideology
  • The substance of art's value
  • Productive and unproductive labor
  • The appearance of value in art
  • Conclusion: some immediate solutions
  • Chapter 3 FROM MEDICI TO MOMA: COLLECTIONS, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE PRIVATE/PUBLIC DISTINCTION
  • The Renaissance roots of MoMA's two audience
  • Art's economic character
  • A few methodological and typological notes
  • Externalizing the collection: a prehistory of the public
  • From the private studiolo to the proto-public Uffizi
  • Collection as oratory
  • Florentine economy, governance, and art
  • Luxury and abstraction
  • The origins of capitalism in the sixteenth century: a debate
  • From city- to nation-state: collections and national identity
  • The museum: an instrument of social control
  • The United States: private philanthropy and public collections
  • American philanthropy and the state
  • The New York Museum of Modern Art
  • MoMA and the private/public ambiguity
  • What is the "Public Trust"?
  • What does it mean that the MoMA is private?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 BLUEPRINTS FOR THE FUTURE: DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
  • Racial capitalism and world system