The Global Rules of Art

""Winner of the International Book Award for Art"" ""The Global Rules of Art provides a benchmark for research in this area and an example of institutional analysis at its most compelling. It will stand as the fundamental contribution to this field for years to come.""---Paul DiMaggio, Administrative Science Quarterly ""Larissa Buchholz has written a magnificent account of the Global art market over the last half century. The book combines extensive, and highly nuanced, discussion of a wide range of relevant cultural theories, with an enormous amount of wonderfully researched data and studies of the Global art market and the relevant personnel including artists, curators, gallerists, art critics, art purchasers, and museum personnel. As a result, the book is an empirical and theoretical treasure.""---David Halle, Social Forces ""An amazingly rich study, with a high level of density, complexity, and nuance, a reference book for now and future generations.""---Kitty Zijlmans, 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual ""An exceptionally clearly and logically written book. [The Global Rules of Art] will certainly be an obligatory reference point for a long time, inside and outside of sociology, for those who are interested in contemporary art, artistic globalization, and neo-Bourdieusian studies of cultural production.""---David Inglis, Contemporary Sociology ""As Dominic Lopes has argued, our philosophical models and arguments need to be consistent with the best work in the empirical sciences. Larissa Buchholz’s sociological exploration of the emergence of a global art feld should appeal to aestheticians not only for its comprehensiveness and carefully documented research, but also for its theoretical sophistication.""---Larry Shiner, British Journal of Aesthetics