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Art-related finance  

Christophe Spaenjers

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28 May 2015

Set of financial methods, instruments, and business models that are used in the Art market. Important developments since the 1960s include the spreading availability and use of art price information and price indexes (see Art index), the emergence of loans collateralized by artworks, repeated efforts to create art investment structures, and a strong growth in art market advisory services provided by wealth managers and new entrepreneurs (see also Investment).

The first major development has been the spread of art price information and art price indexes over the last half-century. After a few difficult decades, art price levels and public interest in the art market were going up again in the 1950s and 1960s. A number of books on the history of the art market and on art investment that were published around that time—Le Vie Etrange des Objets (1959) by Maurice Rheims, Art as an Investment...

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Chinese export art  

Winnie Wong

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11 July 2022

[Art of the Canton trade]

Paintings, drawings, ceramics, furniture, silver, wallpapers, silks, textiles, glass, enamels, sculptures, and other objects produced or finished in Guangzhou (Canton) for markets in Europe, the Americas, Southeast Asia, and other regions of Chinese global trade. These objects were often produced in traditional European styles and media, while others were made in new media developed for the trade. Since the 20th century, scholars and collectors have primarily focused their attention on the period in which the city of Guangzhou served as the sole port of commodity trade and a center of cultural mediation between China and Europe, sometimes known as the “Canton Trade” or “China Trade,” consolidating after 1700 and ending with the First Opium War of 1842. Chinese export art of the 18th and 19th centuries is often associated with Chinoiserie, or European-made works imitating or purporting to represent Chinese works, and both are often treated as conceptually or historically related, despite the many differences in material, style, and subject matter between the two. Despite the focus on period works, however, in a more general sense, artworks produced in China for foreign markets extend across nearly all historical periods and into the present day....

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Globalization of the art market  

Olav Velthuis

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16 February 2015

[emerging art markets]

Since the 1980s art markets have developed rapidly outside of Europe and the USA. In the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) this development has been particularly dynamic. With aggregate sales estimated at €11.5 billion, China is the second largest market for art and antiques in the world after the USA (McAndrew 2014). Works of art made by modern and contemporary artists from all four countries regularly fetch more than $1 million at auction.

The rise of the BRICs has coincided with the global integration of what used to be local art markets: demand for and supply of particular artists or artistic movements may now be dispersed across the globe. The boom which global art markets have witnessed in the new millennium can be attributed partially to new buyers from countries like China and Russia developing an interest in art, both old and new. In describing the emergence of the BRICs, the focus in this article will be on modern and contemporary art, since that is where market development has been most significant, both qualitatively and quantitatively....

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Restitution  

Noémie Goldman and Kim Oosterlinck

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28 May 2015

Term for the return of lost or looted cultural objects to their country of origin, former owners, or their heirs. The loss of the object may happen in a variety of contexts (armed conflicts, war, colonialism, imperialism, or genocide), and the nature of the looted cultural objects may also vary, ranging from artworks, such as paintings and sculptures, to human remains, books, manuscripts, and religious artefacts. An essential part of the process of restitution is the seemingly unavoidable conflict around the transfer of the objects in question from the current to the former owners. Ownership disputes of this nature raise legal, ethical, and diplomatic issues. The heightened tensions in the process arise because the looting of cultural objects challenges, if not breaks down, relationships between peoples, territories, cultures, and heritages.

The history of plundering and art imperialism may be traced back to ancient times. Looting has been documented in many instances from the sack by the Romans of the Etruscan city of Veii in ...