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Larkin

@Larkin

Reading recommendation for those of you who perhaps like me, studied art, but never actually studied the economics of it.

1:04 AM · Feb 10, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

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To be clear, I don’t mean the economics of commercial art (graphic design, advertising, illustration etc.), I mean, the economics of those significant artworks past and present that you learn about in class and that mysterious place called the “art world”.

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Good reads link if you’re interested: https://goodreads.com/book/show/13641387-the-value-of-art…

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Is there something unexpected in the book? The name is catching, though.

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There’s an opening discussion of the etymology of the word amateur and how the word in 19th century France was used to describe someone who literally admired art for its intrinsic qualities/beauty rather than profit as opposed to how we use the word today in a more negative way

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