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Big Business, Selling Shrimps: The Market as Imaginary in Post-Mao China
Jane DeBevoise
For decades critics have written disapprovingly about the relationship between the market and art. In the 1970s proponents of institutional critique wrote in Artforum about the degrading effects of money on art, and in the 1980s Robert Hughes (author of Shock of the New and director of The Mona Lisa Curse ) compared the deleterious effect of the market on art to that of strip-mining on nature. 1 More recently, Hal Foster has disparaged the work of some of the markets hottest art…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2016
Category
Economy
Subjects
Art Market, China, Exhibition Histories, Money & Finance, State & Government