Artworld prestige: arguing cultural value

Abstract

does the artworld often privilege one cultural form over another? Why does it grant more attention to reviews in, say, Artforum over ARTnews? And how can an artist once hailed as visionary de dismissed as derivative just a few years later? Exploring the ever-shifting estimations of value that make up the confluence or artists, critics, patrons, and gallery owners known as the artworld, Timothy van Laar and Leonard Diepeveen argue that prestige, a matter of socially constructed deference and conferral, plays an indispensable role in the attention and reception given to modern and contemporary art. (...) Illustrated with artwork by David Park, Jorge Pardo, Gerhard Richter, Anish Kapoor, Cecily Brown, Howard Finster, and others, Artworld prestige provides an engaging guide to the changes, debates, and shifts that animate aesthetic judgments. -- Jacket