Book Review

This book by Zachary Kingdon is the first to be published in the “Contextualizing Art Markets” collection edited by Kathryn Brown for Bloomsbury. In her preface, Brown emphasises this inaugural function and points out that the notion of “market” is to be understood in the broad sense, which “encompasses a dynamic terrain of exchange, gift, barter and negotiation” (p. XXV). Not that this first volume should be read as a programmatic essay, of course; rather, it is to be viewed as a case study that may serve to disrupt the analytical routines of art history and the anthropology of art in their analysis of the production of the value of works.