Larissa Buchholz
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Connection to Illinois: Buchholz is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. Biography: Larissa Buchholz is an award-winning sociologist whose work centers on dynamics of cultural production and art markets within a global context. She also is interested in broader questions of global theorizing and methodology and her work has contributed to the development of global/transnational field theory. Holding four graduate degrees, Buchholz's education encompassed sociology, art history, philosophy, communication studies, and anthropology. Most recently, she earned a PhD in sociology from Columbia University. Buchholz is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and a Faculty Fellow at the Critical Realism Network, Yale University. Prior to that she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, the first woman elected from her discipline. Buchholz's scholarship has garnered multiple awards, including Columbia's Robert K. Merton Award, the Junior Theorist Prize of the International Sociological Association, Junior Theorist Award of the American Sociological Association or Columbia University's outstanding recent Alumni Award, among others. In addition to her academic work, Buchholz has engaged in consulting for cultural organizations around the globe.
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The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy ISBN: 0691245444 OCLC: 1313904127 Princeton University Press 2022 A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwide Prior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international” contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and Western Europe, while cultural agents from other parts of the world often found themselves on the margins. The Global Rules of Art examines how this discriminatory situation has changed in recent decades. Drawing from abundant sources—including objective indicators from more than one hundred countries, multiple institutional histories and discourses, extensive fieldwork, and interviews with artists, critics, curators, gallerists, and auction house agents—Larissa Buchholz examines the emergence of a world-spanning art field whose logics have increasingly become defined in global terms. Deftly blending comprehensive historical analyses with illuminating case studies, The Global Rules of Art breaks new ground in its exploration of valuation and how cultural hierarchies take shape in a global context. The book’s innovative global field approach will appeal to scholars in the sociology of art, cultural and economic sociology, interdisciplinary global studies, and anyone interested in the dynamics of global art and culture. |