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The value of taste : auction prices and the evolution of taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age painting, 1642-2011
- 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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- 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 2008. 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 ; v. 3.
- Subject
- 1600-1699
- Painting, Dutch > 17th century > Prices
- Painting, Flemish > 17th century > Prices
- Painting, Dutch > 17th century > Prices > Statistics
- Painting, Flemish > 17th century > Prices > Statistics
- Auktionspreis
- Barock
- Bewertung
- Druckgrafik
- Geschmack Ästhetik
- Kaufpreis
- Kunstauktion
- Kunsthandel
- Malerei
- Marktwert
- Quantitative Methode
- Flandern
- Niederlande
- Genre/Form
- Statistics
- Statistics.
- Statistiques.
- 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 (pages 283-293) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Methodology. 1. Auction prices : A basis for outlining an evolution in taste? -- 2. The composition of the database -- 3. Quantitative methods for the analysis of auction prices -- Part II. Interpretation. 4. An attempt to explain evolutions in price -- Part III. Facts and figures. 5. Some basic data on the numbers of painters active in the Low Countries in the seventeenth century -- 6. Basic data on seventeenth-century painting ownership -- 7. Selection of the painters in the sample -- 8. The conversion of units of currency and length in the period before 1900 -- 9. Definitions of the various genres -- 10. Authenticity -- 11. Summary.
- ISBN
- 9781909400481
- 1909400483
- LCCN
- 9781909400481
- OCLC
- on1019729396
- 1019729396
- SCSB-8969885
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library