This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
Introduction;
Chapter 1 The Early Stages: From the Netherlands to Great
Britain;
Chapter 2 The Commoditization of Theories of Art;
Chapter 3 The
Painter as Homo Economicus;
Chapter 4 Critics and Auctions;
Chapter 5 The
Evolution of Picture-Dealing;
Chapter 6 The Victorian Era;
Chapter 7 Working
the Oracle: The Tools of the Trade;
Chapter 8 The Formation of a Nexus: A
Story of Christies;
Chapter 9 Commoditization and the Artist as Producer:
Product Differentiation and the Domestication of Pictures;
Chapter 10 The End
of the Golden Age;
Chapter 11 Postscript: A Perpetual Innovative Whirl;
Bayer, Thomas M; Page, John R.
