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Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture examines lotteries as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their value in the former Low Countries. Alongside the fairs and before specialist auction sales were established, they were an atypical but popular and large-scale form of the art trade. As part of a growing entrepreneurial sensibility based on speculation and a sense of risk, they lay behind many innovations. This study looks at their actors, networks and strategies. It considers the objects at stake, their value, and the forms of visual communication intended to boost an appetite for ownership. Ultimately, it contemplates how the lottery culture impacted notions of Fortune and Vanitas in the visual arts.
Price: $183.00
Pages: 372
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets
Publication Date:
13 March 2018
ISBN: 9789004353213
Format: Hardcover
"Sophie Raux's book provides the first fundamental monograph that examines the history of lotteries and the art markets in the Southern Netherlands and the Dutch Republic. ... This well-written and lavishly illustrated book is a must read for art historians and historians working on the early modern Low Countries." - Michael North, Universität Greifswald, in: Renaissance Quarterly
"Das Buch leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einer kulturgeschichtlichen Erweiterung der (Kunst-)Markthistoriografie."
Elizabeth Harding, Sehepunkte
"Das Buch leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einer kulturgeschichtlichen Erweiterung der (Kunst-)Markthistoriografie."
Elizabeth Harding, Sehepunkte
Sophie Raux, Ph. D. (1993), Université de Lille, is Professor of Early Modern Art History at Université Lumière Lyon 2. Her research and publications focus primarily on the history of the art trade in the Southern Netherlands and France.