Objects Through the Art Market: A Global Perspective
This page is dedicated to the ANR ACCESS ERC OBJECTive Objects Through the Art Market: A Global Perspectiveproject.
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This project aims to expand the scope of analysis of the art markets studies which to this day focuses primarily on the market for pictures or “fine arts”. To develop a global approach, the goal of this project is to conceive a database, specifically designed to investigate the markets for objets d’art (also known as “decorative arts”). Interoperable and accessible on the internet, it will provide new historical data, from auctioneers archives unexplored to this day, crossed with auction catalogues, providing an opening to new perspectives of research for international museums and scholars.
The database will be built for specific searches on objects and provide access to individual players and their vast web of connections in order to answer questions relative to provenance, circulation, collections, expertise, trade etc. In the first phase of the project (2023-2025) data will be imported from a selection of Parisian sales across a time span (1830s-1890s) with the aim to embrace a much wider chronology and international sources in the future. It should contribute greatly to provenance research but also to the history of trade across borders, preferences and private/public collections. The accessibility of the data will also allow it to be used across various historical disciplines (economics, sociology, gender, etc.); ultimately encouraging interdisciplinary studies through art history.
(FR)
Ce projet vise à élargir le champ des études sur les marchés de l’art qui, à ce jour, se concentrent très largement sur le marché des « beaux-arts ». Afin de développer une approche globale ce projet vise à construire une base de données spécifiquement conçue pour analyser le marché des objets d’art (aussi désignés en tant qu’arts décoratifs). Interopérable et accessible sur le web, elle fournira de nouvelles données historiques, issues d’archives de ventes encore inexplorées, croisées avec des catalogues.
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