The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780–1835

Lincoln, Matthew; Fox, Abram Jacob

doi:10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-04/afox-mlincoln

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“…To take an example from issue 4 of British Art Studies: in their article, "The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780-1835," Matthew Lincoln and Abram Fox used the Getty Provenance Index Sales Catalog Database, a database of painting auction records that date between 1780 and 1835, in order to tease out the temporal structures in the early flourishing of art auctions in London, and test their relationship to the schedule of the Royal Academy's exhibitions and the larger "Season" of London society. 6 At the forefront of their article is a section on "Data and Methodology" that clearly lays out the gaps in their data and the attendant issues of historical interpretation. "Like any archive," Fox and Lincoln write, "this database is not a perfect representation of all historical auctions as they actually occurred; we face that intractable historiographic problem in tandem with all historians."…”

Section: British Art Studies and "Digital Art History"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the PDF: Expanding Art History Digitally with British Art Studies

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British Art Studies, a born-digital, open-access journal, co-published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), launched in November 2015. This article documents how and why British Art Studies was established and the ethos that has motivated the editorial team to always think "beyond the PDF" in creating a new digital publication for the field of art history. Drawing on case studies of articles and features published in the first seven issues of British Art Studies, the purpose of this article is to reflect on the creation and development of the journal alongside the broader critical and methodological questions that have guided and shaped our approach to publishing. Co-written by the current editorial and production team, this article explores how establishing and maintaining British Art Studies has enabled us and our authors to join the growing conversation about the intersection and cross-fertilization of art-historical research with digital tools and technologies.

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Section: British Art Studies and "Digital Art History"mentioning

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The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house

Vermeylen

Ginhoven

2023

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Revisiting Harrison and Cynthia White’s Academic vs. Dealer-Critic System

Saint-Raymond

2019

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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, Canvases and Careers, Institutional Change in the French Painting World, 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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The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780–1835

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Beyond the PDF: Expanding Art History Digitally with British Art Studies

Beyond the PDF: Expanding Art History Digitally with British Art Studies

The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house

Revisiting Harrison and Cynthia White’s Academic vs. Dealer-Critic System

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