The Economics of Painting: Patronage vs. the Market

Video / 90 Min / Commerce & Culture
This is the third lecture in the Commerce & Culture Course
 
 
SYNOPSIS
A ten-lecture course presented by Paul Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and a pioneer in literary criticism from an Austrian perspective. Having studied with Mises, he is working to counter the Marxist understanding of culture that dominates the humanities today.”

The art market is the best understood form of commercial artistic creation. The importance of the studio system. Case studies include Michelangelo and Rubens.  Answer to the riddle: “When is a Rembrandt not a Rembrandt?”