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Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocentric distortions of the Western viewpoint? What social representations and uses of art can be identified? A research team from the University of St. Gallen has taken up such questions in an ethnographical field research project which enables the actors in this emergent and nonetheless already market-dominated art field to have their say.

Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocentric distortions of the Western viewpoint? What social representations and uses of art can be identified? A research team from the University of St. Gallen has taken up such questions in an ethnographical field research project which enables the actors in this emergent and nonetheless already market-dominated art field to have their say.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Art unlimited? -- Prospective territorial occupations -- Voices from an emerging art field -- The Olympics of art in distant realms -- Contemporary art and its Eastern public -- A world turned upside down -- Appendix

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: Creators in the Market: Artists Between Aesthetics, Critique, and Trade -- 2: Patrick Modiano, Between the Fields of Limited Production and Large-Scale Production -- Introduction -- Before the Nobel Prize -- Friends in High Places: Modiano's Entry into the Literary World -- Prestigious Publishing Houses -- Accumulating Literary Prizes -- Academic Recognition -- Flourishing in the Book Market -- After the Nobel Prize -- Attribution of the Nobel Prize in Literature -- Effects of the Nobel Prize in France -- Effects of the Nobel Prize Abroad -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: A Star Down-to-Earth: On Social Critique in Popular Culture -- Introduction -- Analysing Social Critique in Popular Culture: "A Voice for the Voiceless" -- Establishing a Social Cause: "Always the Same Who…" -- The Quest for Legitimate Representation -- Distinction: "I'm a Star!" -- Identification: "I Am One of You" -- Unification: A Star Down-to-Earth -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Media -- Links -- Part II: Artistic Career Paths: Trajectories and Inequalities in the Market -- 4: Art Workers, Inequality, and the Labour Market: Values, Norms, and Alienation Across Three Generations of Artists -- Introduction -- Understanding Artists and Inequality -- A Note on Methods and Data -- Janet, Carla, and Lisa: Artists' Working Lives -- Class(ifying) Artists -- Inequality and the Struggle to Be an Artist -- The Cultural Capital -- Pay and the Art Market -- Who Can Be an Artist? -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Visual Artists' Professional Situations and Trajectories Between Institutions and the Market -- Introduction -- Inquiry and Respondents Sample -- Method -- Artistic Precariousness -- A Tripolar Professional Space of Visual Artists.