The book Researching Arts Markets: Past, Present and Tools for the Future (2021) offers a unique multi-disciplinary contribution that disentangles some of the key aspects and trends in art market practices from the past to nowadays, namely art collectors, the artist as an entrepreneur and career paths, and the formation and development of new markets.
In understanding the global art market as an ecosystem, the book also examines how research and perceptions have evolved over time. Within the frameworks of contemporary social, economic and political contexts, issues such as business practices, the roles of market participants and the importance of networks are analysed by scholars of different disciplines. With insights from across the humanities and social sciences, the book explores how different methods can coexist to create an interdisciplinary international community of knowledge and research on art markets. Moreover, by providing historical as well as contemporary examples, this book explores the continuum and diversity of the art market.
Overall, this book provides a valuable tool for understanding art markets within their wider context. The volume is of interest to scholars researching into the cultural and creative industries from a wider perspective, as well as to artists and art market practitioners, collectors, and investors.
In the book Law and Finance in International Art Markets (2025), we explore two specific points that contribute to the social construction of the art market. These are, firstly, the legal rules that underpin it, and, secondly, its financing structure. In keeping with the aims of the previous book, Researching Arts Markets: Past, Present and Tools for the Future (2021), the essays in this volume demonstrate the connections between historic and contemporary practices through a multidisciplinary perspective, with a view, here, to showing how many of the legal and financial structures in contemporary art-market practice reflect historical precedents. The book brings together scholars from numerous fields of expertise to explore the legal and financial structures of historic and contemporary art markets around the world. Chapters bring in perspectives from across the human and social sciences, employing a range of methods interpret the creation, demand for, dissemination, evaluation and protection of art in an increasingly global environment.
This book provides a valuable tool for understanding art markets within their wider context. It is of interest to scholars researching into the legal and financial aspects of the cultural and creative industries in general, and international art markets more specifically, as well as to artists and art market practitioners, collectors, and investors.