Money in Art images
Histoire de l'art -Published by Coédition Monnaie de Paris / In Fine éditions d’art -Cartonné -208 pages -Texts in Bilingue Français / English -Published in 2023
An exploration of the relationship between art and money through a selection of nearly 200 works from antiquity to the contemporary era.
Exhibition Catalogue Money in Art, presented at the Monnaie de Paris (March 30 to September 24, 2023).
An exploration of the relationship between art and money through a selection of nearly 200 works from antiquity to the contemporary era.
From the fifteenth century, when representations of metallic coins and scenes of transactions in painting multiplied, to the twentieth century, when a more intrusive reflection on the mechanisms of money appeared, through the nineteenth century, which saw its art economy disrupted by the birth of impressionism and the prominent role of the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, the imagination produced by artists about money is rich and permanent.
"The relationship between art and money cannot be reduced to economic considerations between values and exchanges. Capitalism has certainly made the work of art a commodity like any other; for all that, art imposes an ideal, irrational, floating, even gaseous value, from zero to infinity (or almost), because it touches the unquantifiable: desire, pleasure, dream, impulse, and exacerbates what Karl Marx called: "the enigma of value".
Summary
THE MONEY IN THE ART AND VICE VERSA
THE MODERNIST REVOLUTION IN THE ART AND THE MARKET
THE GOLDEN CALF AND THE MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS
TAKE THE MONEY
I MYTHS AND ORIGINS OF MONEY
II MORALITY AND MONEY PROFESSIONS
III ARTISTIC REVOLUTION AND FINANCIAL CAPITALISM
IV WHAT DOES THE ARTIST SELL
V CAPITAL : I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT
VI ART AND MONEY, BETWEEN FLOWS AND DATAS
Money in Art - English texts
