TY - BOOK AU - Schultheis,Franz AU - Köfeler,Raphaela AU - Single,Erwin ED - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Projektnummer: 164126 TI - Art Unlimited?: Dynamics and Paradoxes of a Globalizing Art World T2 - Kulturen der Gesellschaft SN - 9783839432969 AV - N72.S6 S348 2016 PY - 2016///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript Verlag, KW - Art and society KW - China KW - Sociology (General) KW - Art Market KW - Art KW - Ethnography KW - Globalization KW - Sociology KW - Theory of Art KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Art unlimited? --; Prospective territorial occupations --; Voices from an emerging art field --; The Olympics of art in distant realms --; Contemporary art and its Eastern public --; A world turned upside down --; Appendix N2 - Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocentric distortions of the Western viewpoint? What social representations and uses of art can be identified?A research team from the University of St. Gallen has taken up such questions in an ethnographical field research project which enables the actors in this emergent and nonetheless already market-dominated art field to have their say UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839432969?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839432969 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839432969/original ER -