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Schibeci, Lynn Frances.

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The London auction market and the commodification of English taste, 1766-1823.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The London auction market and the commodification of English taste, 1766-1823./
Author:	Schibeci, Lynn Frances.
Description:	359 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-06, Section: A, page: 2186.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-06A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9932236
ISBN:	9780599326729

The London auction market and the commodification of English taste, 1766-1823.
Schibeci, Lynn Frances.

The London auction market and the commodification of English taste, 1766-1823. - 359 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-06, Section: A, page: 2186.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 1999.

This dissertation examines British and European economic and political influences upon the concept of English taste, a critical category of distinction in the eighteenth century. It argues that London's art and luxury goods market expanded dramatically because of two major transformations that occurred in the 1790s: first, London assumed the role of Europe's most important and prosperous luxury goods marketplace after Paris's declined in the midst of seemingly interminable revolution and war; and second, Britain's increasingly powerful bourgeoisie influenced the popularity of the country's best artists and artisans, making their works more popular among all British collectors. This profusion of luxury objects was most readily available in the city's most prestigious auction house, which exploited the changes in demand and supply of those commodities to further its own reputation. With the rise of the auction business in Britain, the elite no longer needed to go to the Continent to buy luxury goods; in fact, they needed to buy goods from Christie's if they wanted to collect Europe's finest objects.

ISBN: 9780599326729Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

The London auction market and the commodification of English taste, 1766-1823.
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520 $a In these circumstance, wealthy men and women---not just the aristocracy competed for commodities and the rank of connoisseur. As cash flowed into Christie's, the auctioneer continued to expand his sales schedule, but he was determined to attain still greater expansion. To do so, he used the key concept of taste, making social distinctions between his buyers and those of his few real competitors. For him and his buyers, taste was a means of negotiating not only the cultural value but also the monetary value of objects. But as the project reveals, taste also became a way to ascribe gender values to certain luxury goods that women could afford to buy. By the turn of the century, Christie's had become Europe's most important centre for collecting and for defining taste, and the men and women who participated in its sales had become England's new generation of taste-makers. The English aristocracy was still dominant in this activity, but no longer represented the sole arbiter of national cultural identity.
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