Research Catalog

Title

The value of taste : auction prices and the evolution of taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age painting, 1642-2011 / Peter Carpreau.

Author

Carpreau, Peter

Publication

• London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, [2017].
• ©2017

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Details

Description

295 pages : charts; 29 cm

Summary

This book is a systematic and quantitative study of taste. More specifically it focuses on the painters of the seventeenth-century Low Countries and follows the changes in consumer evaluation of them from the seventeenth century up to 2011. Proceeding from the same starting point as Gerald Reitlinger in his monumental The Economics of Taste, it uses the prices paintings have fetched at auction as a basis for tracing trends in the taste of the art-buying public. Whereas Reitlinger's approach was rather intuitive, this study develops a sound methodological basis for researching taste and auction prices. It is not only quantitative methods and properties of auction prices that require a specific approach: in historical research quantitative data and analyses are only reliable when they can also be tested against qualitative or historical sources. Based on a statistical analysis, various 'universal' painters, such as Rubens and Rembrandt, are defined. In addition, however, specific genres such as landscape, portrait, history painting, and so on are analysed. In the case of eighty-three painters there is sufficient information to allow the profiling of individual price trends. But other quantitative data drawn from the examination of collections or catalogues raisonnés prove an additional source of information when compared with auction prices. This book shows what big data and statistics can mean to our understanding of art.--

Series Statement

Collectors and dealers ; volume 3

Uniform Title

Collectors and dealers ; volume 3

Subject

• Painting, Dutch > 17th century > Prices
• Painting, Flemish > 17th century > Prices
• Painting, Dutch > 17th century > Prices > Statistics
• Painting, Flemish > 17th century > Prices > Statistics

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Leuven): De prijsevolutie van 17de eeuws Noord- en Zuid-Nederlandse schilderijen (17de-20ste eeuw).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQF 18-816

ISBN

• 9781909400481
• 1909400483

LCCN

9781909400481

OCLC

1019729396

Author

Carpreau, Peter, author.

Title

The value of taste : auction prices and the evolution of taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age painting, 1642-2011 / Peter Carpreau.

Publisher

London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, [2017].

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Collectors and dealers ; volume 3

Collectors and dealers ; volume 3

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Standard Identifier

9781909400481

Research Call Number

JQF 18-816