Overview
Since the birth of modern art in the late 1800s, artists have developed new strategies to display and sell their works. By the First World War, art dealing and art collecting were transnational affairs. The goal of the course is to familiarize participants with the institutions that have historically played an essential role in shaping the art market (private dealers, galleries, collectors, auction houses, museums, official exhibitions). Through a thematic approach, this series of five lectures will provide a better understanding of how the role of these players have shifted overtime but still continue to shape our global art world.
What you will learn :
- Gain an in-depth understanding of Art Market infrastructure and learn about the key players of the Art Ecosystem
- Learn about the historical development of the Modern Marketplace in addition to a comprehensive overview of the Global Contemporary Art Market
Academic Profile
Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Ph.D
Independent Scholar, Co-Founder of WADDA [Women Art Dealers Digital Archives]
Throughout her career, Véronique Chagnon-Burke has taught a wide range of subjects in art market studies and art history at Queens College, Parsons School of Design, and Hunter College, among other institutions. Her museum and research positions have included work at the Museum of Modern Art and the College Art Association, and she has also worked at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. From 2002 to 2021, she was the Director of Christie’s Education in New York, where she also taught the history of the art market.
A specialist in the history of nineteenth century French landscape painting, her fields of expertise also include nineteenth century art criticism and the art market and the role of women in the art world. She received her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, her M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, and her Licence from the Université Paris-Sorbonne. She is also a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre in museum studies.
Most recently she has been focusing on organizing academic conferences which bring together art history and art market studies, such as Celebrating Female Agency in the Art in June 2018, and Women Art Dealers 1940-1990 in May 2019. Her current collaborative project is the Women Art Dealers Digital Archive (WADDA), a digital platform that maps the role women art dealers played in the institutionalization of modern and contemporary art. She is one of the editors of an upcoming book Women Art Dealers, Makers of the Modern Art Market, 1940-1990, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2023. She is founding member of the New York chapter of The International Art Market Studies Association [TIAMSA] and a section editor for the upcoming Art Market Dictionary to be published by De Gruyter, in Berlin in 2021.
Selected publications include:
The Politicization of Nature: The Critical Reception of Barbizon Painting During the July Monarchy (2009)
“Les Femmes et la Critique d’art au 19ème siècle”; “Marie de Flaviny, La Baronne Bonne Decazes, et Judith Gautier,” in Le Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices (2010)
“Rue Laffitte: Looking at and Buying Contemporary Art in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris,” in Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide (2012)
Women Art Critics in the Nineteenth Century: Vanishing Acts, a collaborative anthology with Heather Jensen and Wendelin (2013)
“The Market for Contemporary Art,” Grove Art Dictionary (2018)
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