Revisiting Harrison and Cynthia White’s Academic vs. Dealer-Critic System
The field of art market studies is based on a famous opposition, coined by Harrison and Cynthia White in 1965, regarding the “academic” system, as opposed to the “dealer-critic” one. Published in 1965, their book, <i>Canvases and Careers, Institutional C...
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| description | The field of art market studies is based on a famous opposition, coined by Harrison and Cynthia White in 1965, regarding the “academic” system, as opposed to the “dealer-critic” one. Published in 1965, their book, <i>Canvases and Careers, Institutional Change in the French Painting World</i>, was qualified by Patricia Mainardi and Pierre Vaisse, but their criticism dated back to the 1990s. In the meantime, the development of digital methods makes possible a broader reassessment of Harrison and Cynthia White’s theory. Based on a corpus of Parisian auction sales, from 1831 through 1925, this paper uses econometrics to call into question the antagonism between the academic and the dealer-critic system, and comes to another conclusion: the academic system was crucial to determine the value of artworks and its efficiency did not collapse in the 1870s, nor in the 1880s, but rather after the Great War. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d2c3d5e79294e4d9762a167b089a5a92022-12-22T00:11:57ZengMDPI AGArts2076-07522019-07-01839610.3390/arts8030096arts8030096Revisiting Harrison and Cynthia White’s Academic vs. Dealer-Critic SystemLéa Saint-Raymond0Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, FranceThe field of art market studies is based on a famous opposition, coined by Harrison and Cynthia White in 1965, regarding the “academic” system, as opposed to the “dealer-critic” one. Published in 1965, their book, <i>Canvases and Careers, Institutional Change in the French Painting World</i>, was qualified by Patricia Mainardi and Pierre Vaisse, but their criticism dated back to the 1990s. In the meantime, the development of digital methods makes possible a broader reassessment of Harrison and Cynthia White’s theory. Based on a corpus of Parisian auction sales, from 1831 through 1925, this paper uses econometrics to call into question the antagonism between the academic and the dealer-critic system, and comes to another conclusion: the academic system was crucial to determine the value of artworks and its efficiency did not collapse in the 1870s, nor in the 1880s, but rather after the Great War.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/3/96art marketSaloneconometricsHarrison and Cynthia Whiteacademic systemdealer-critic system |
| spellingShingle | Léa Saint-Raymond Revisiting Harrison and Cynthia White’s Academic vs. Dealer-Critic System Arts art market Salon econometrics Harrison and Cynthia White academic system dealer-critic system |
| title | Revisiting Harrison and Cynthia White’s Academic vs. Dealer-Critic System |
| title_full | Revisiting Harrison and Cynthia White’s Academic vs. Dealer-Critic System |
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| title_short | Revisiting Harrison and Cynthia White’s Academic vs. Dealer-Critic System |
| title_sort | revisiting harrison and cynthia white s academic vs dealer critic system |
| topic | art market Salon econometrics Harrison and Cynthia White academic system dealer-critic system |
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