Circulation and the Art Market

Authors

  • Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel Ecole normale supérieure, Département d'Histoire et Théorie des Arts, Paris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23690/jams.v1i2.13

Keywords:

Transnational studies, Global markets, Global art history

Abstract

Circulation is an exciting prism through which to conduct research into the art market. It invites us to think in terms of flows and exchanges rather than in terms of stock, prices, and quantities sold or bought. It leads towards an examination of the channels and networks that make up the art market, rather than simply to questions of production and sales. It encourages us to base our reasoning on circuits and mobility, rather than on marketplaces and the  balance of supply and demand. From a theoretical point of view, circulation adds a welcome complexity to an approach – art market studies - that sometimes risks slipping into a simplistic economic study dealing superficially in prices, stocks, galleries, dealers, and fluctuations in value. A circulatory methodology challenges art market studies as a discipline to go beyond the conventional tools of economic analysis and a delocalized, or even utopian, application of quantitative reasoning.

Author Biography

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Ecole normale supérieure, Département d'Histoire et Théorie des Arts, Paris

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel is an Associate Professor for Contemporary Art at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. She works on the history of the avant-gardes in a global and transnational perspective, an area of research that brought her to challenge the methodologies used in the study of art globalization and explore quantitative and cartographic approaches, digital humanities, and collaborative research. She is the founder and director of the ARTL@S project since 2009 (http://www.artlas.ens.fr). She directed the collective publication L’Art et la Mesure. Histoire de l’art et méthodes quantitatives : sources, outils, bonnes pratiques (2010), and coedited with Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Catherine Dossin the book Circulations in the Global History of Art (Ashgate, 2015). She has published Nul n’est prophète en son pays ? L’internationalisation de la peinture avant-gardiste parisienne, 1855-1914 (Paris, Musée d’Orsay/Nicolas Chaudun, 2009 – Prix du musée d’Orsay). She is currently finishing a 3 volumes transnational history of modernist art for the Editions Gallimard (Folio histoire Series, pocket books), Les avant-gardes artistiques – une histoire transnationale. The first volume has been published in January 2016 (1848-1968); volume 2 (1918-1945) forthcoming April 2017; volume 3 (1945-1968) forthcoming in 2018. Personal page: http://www.dhta.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique4 (and Academia).

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Published

2017-08-03

How to Cite

Joyeux-Prunel, B. (2017). Circulation and the Art Market. Journal for Art Market Studies, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.23690/jams.v1i2.13