Commodifying art, Chinese style: The making of China’s visual art market

Jun Zhang

Environment and Planning A, 2017, vol. 49, issue 9, 2025-2045

Abstract: The economic value of art to cities and regions has recently been vigorously pursued and actively studied. The rapid ascendance of China as a superpower in the global art market and associated transformation of China’s art space, however, are yet poorly understood. This paper develops a Polanyian framework to interpret the spatial and institutional evolution of China’s art market, seeing the (de)commodification of art as a cumulative process embedded in geo-historical interplays of triple logics—cultural, capital, and political, unfolding within, and reshaping in turn, historically inherited spatial structures.

Keywords: Art market; China; commodification; cultural and creative industries; Karl Polanyi (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17713993

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