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by Art Fag City on May 27, 2010 · 4 comments Fresh Links!

Art Value – artnet Magazine

Dedicate a bit of time to this — it’s long, but worth the read. Also, recommended in this piece is Olav Velthuis's Talking Prices,”an extremely wide-ranging and subtle guide to the way in which value is formed in contemporary art.” Time to go get this puppy.

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mattf May 28, 2010 at 12:16 pm

The historical analysis of relics is fascinating, incorporating elements of relatively common knowledge with more esoteric research to build a compelling argument for the analogy between the reception of relics and contemporary artworks (if this isn’t already a book, it should be). Still, the author seems to too quickly dismiss the arguments of Thompson and Galenson in ascribing value to contemporary artworks – that is, how is an “artist” made into a “saint?”

mattf May 28, 2010 at 12:16 pm

The historical analysis of relics is fascinating, incorporating elements of relatively common knowledge with more esoteric research to build a compelling argument for the analogy between the reception of relics and contemporary artworks (if this isn’t already a book, it should be). Still, the author seems to too quickly dismiss the arguments of Thompson and Galenson in ascribing value to contemporary artworks – that is, how is an “artist” made into a “saint?”

mattf May 28, 2010 at 12:16 pm

The historical analysis of relics is fascinating, incorporating elements of relatively common knowledge with more esoteric research to build a compelling argument for the analogy between the reception of relics and contemporary artworks (if this isn’t already a book, it should be). Still, the author seems to too quickly dismiss the arguments of Thompson and Galenson in ascribing value to contemporary artworks – that is, how is an “artist” made into a “saint?”

mattf May 28, 2010 at 8:16 am

The historical analysis of relics is fascinating, incorporating elements of relatively common knowledge with more esoteric research to build a compelling argument for the analogy between the reception of relics and contemporary artworks (if this isn’t already a book, it should be). Still, the author seems to too quickly dismiss the arguments of Thompson and Galenson in ascribing value to contemporary artworks – that is, how is an “artist” made into a “saint?”

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