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Sublime Economy: On the intersection of art and economics book cover

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Sublime Economy On the intersection of art and economics

Edited By Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers, Stephen E. Cullenberg Copyright 2009
336 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as sublime. It might even be said that much of the emergence of a distinctly "modern" art in the West is inextricably linked to the perception of art’s own autonomy and, therefore, its privileged, mostly critical, gaze at the terrible mixture of wonder... Read more

Introduction.  Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers, Stephen Cullenberg.  Tokens of Eccentricity’: Value and the Aesthetic Representation of Economy  1. Tracing the Economic: Modern Art’s Construction of Economic Value Jack Amariglio  2. Meaning to Say.... Judith Mehta  3. Use, Value, Aesthetics: Gambling with Difference/Speculating with Value Joseph W. Childers and Stephen Cullenberg.  Sublime Intercourse: Economics Meets Aesthetics (and Vice Versa)  4. Reluctant Partners: Aesthetic and Market Value, 1708-1871 Neil DeMarchi  5. On the Contemporaneousness of Roger de Piles' Balance des Peintres Victor Ginsburgh and Sheila Wyers  6. How Aesthetics and Economics Met in Voc Ed Evan Watkins  7. Economics Meets Esthetics in the Bloomsbury Group Craufurd D. Goodwin  8. Individualism, Civilization, and National Character in Market Democracies Regenia Gagnier  9. Fleeing Capitalism: A Slightly Disputatious Conversation/Interview among Friends Deirdre McCloskey and Jack Amariglio.  Name Your Price  10. Imaginary Currencies:Contemporary Art on the Market - Critique Confirmation, or Play Olav Velthuis  11. The Sociology of the New Art Gallery Scene in Chelsea, Manhattan David Halle  12. Lives of Cultural Goods Arjo Klamer.  Moral Economies and the Romance of Money  13. Wampum: Foreign Legal Tender of the United States Marc Shell  14. The Rhetoric of Prostitution Jennifer Doyle  15. From Roman Copy to Greek Original: Nineteenth Century Re-evaluation of the Classical Statue Yota Batsaki

Biography

Jack Amariglio is Professor of Economics at Merrimack College. Joseph W. Childers is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Stephen E. Cullenberg is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside.

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