Symbolic meanings of prices: Constructing the value of contemporary art in Amsterdam and New York galleries

By O. Velthuis. 2003

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Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange (2014, background): “…taboos can involve not only rhetorical framing or symbolically loaded prices, as described in much previous research (Anteby 2010; Quinn 2008; Velthuis 2003; Wherry 2008; Zelizer 1978), but complicated exchange structures—bundling, brokerage, and gift exchange—that partially obscure the…”
Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature” (2011, unknown): “Do they have monetary value in and of themselves, and if so, how do we assess it?”
The social order of markets (2009, background): “It is the recognition an artist finds among reputable and influential members of the art world, such as art critics, museum curators, galleries and collectors, that establishes the quality of his or her work (Becker 1982; Beckert and Rössel 2004; Velthuis 2003).”