The Sociology of Arts and Markets New Developments and Persistent Patterns

1. Introduction; Andrea Glauser, Patricia Holder, Thomas Mazzurana, Olivier Moeschler, Valérie Rolle and Franz Schultheis.- Part 1. Creators in the Market: Artists between Aesthetics, Critique and Trade.- 2. Patrick Modiano, Between the Fields of Limited Production and Large-Scale Production; Clara Lévy.- 3. A Star Down-to-Earth: On Social Criticism in Popular Culture; Désirée Waibel and Robert Schäfer.- Part 2. Artistic Career Paths: Trajectories and Inequalities in the Market.- 4.  Art Workers, Inequality and the Labour Market: Values, Norms, and Alienation Across Three Generations of Artists; Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor.- 5.  Visual Artists’ Professional Situations and Trajectories Between Institutions and the Market; Pierre Bataille, Johannes M. Hedinger and Olivier Moeschler.- 6. The Art Market – Art’s Incomplete Mirror: Artistic Action’s Guiding Principle and their Consequences for the Art Market; Linda Dürkop-Henseling.- Part 3. The Economy of Idiosyncrasy: Art Dealers and the Commodification of Individuality.- 7. When Market Promotes Individuality: Arts in Early Modern Japan from the Macrosociological Perspective; Takemitsu Morikawa.- 8.  The Art Market Facing New Connoisseurship: The Reception of Pieter Brueghel the Younger at Auction; Anne-Sophie Radermecker.- 9.  Collective-Artists: Actors on the Margins of the Global Field of Contemporary Art; Séverine Marguin.- Part 4. Marketable Art: Galleries and Gallery Owners as Central Intermediaries.- 10. Hierarchies and Divisions in the Subfield of Gallery Owners: A Research on Art Galleries in Milan; Anna Uboldi.- 11.  Mapping the Professional Self-Concepts of Gallery Owners: A Typology; Michael Gautier.- 12.  The Diffusion of Galleries in China (1991-2016); Linzhi Zhang.- Part 5. Market Assessments: The Increasing Role of Art Rankings.- 13. MagicIndex on the Wall: Who is the Most Valuable Artist of Them All?; Nathalie Moureau.- 14. Can Contemporary Art Galleries Be Ranked? A Sociological Attempt from the Paris Case; Alain Quemin.- Part 6.   Features of the Art Market in Advanced Capitalism: From Established to New Patterns? - 15. The Art Fair Boom and its Contradictions; Erwin Single.- 16.  Art Meets Capitalism: In Praise of Promising Potentialities; Denis Hänzi.- 17.  The Art, the Markets, and Sociology: Concluding Remarks; Franz Schultheis.