Maddalena Alvi

The European Art Market and the First World War

Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910-1925

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The outbreak of the First World War shattered the European art market. In its place, Maddalena Alvi argues, can be found the origins of a recognisably modern market of nationalised spheres driven by capitalist investment and speculation, yet open to wider social strata.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009600811
• ISBN-10: 1009600818
• Artikelnr.: 73532858

Autorenporträt

Maddalena Alvi completed her Ph.D. in history at the University of Cambridge and has worked as a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The European market before 1914
2. The great conflagration (1914-1918)
3. 'Wartime cultural changes' (1914-1918)
4. Post-war markets (1918-1925)
5. 'The challenges of new markets'
6. Cementing nationalisation (1918-1925)
Conclusion: the end of the European art market.