Edited by Kris Dittel, The Trouble with Value discusses the tangled story of the symbolic and economic value that a work of art holds, being a product of its maker’s labour; with an attempt to provide insights into current notions of value and value systems surrounding us.
Any artwork is subject to a web of assessments, expressed from the perspective of experts and audiences. Among those actors in this judgmental spectacle are curators, critics, art historians, philosophers, art dealers, and of course the public too. Institutions and the machinery of the art market complete this disposition. The Trouble with Value aims to locate and extract practices that bring us closer to understanding the potential of art to represent different notions of value in the contemporary.
224 pages, 19 x 28.5 cm, softcover including poster, Onomatopee (Eindhoven).
Any artwork is subject to a web of assessments, expressed from the perspective of experts and audiences. Among those actors in this judgmental spectacle are curators, critics, art historians, philosophers, art dealers, and of course the public too. Institutions and the machinery of the art market complete this disposition. The Trouble with Value aims to locate and extract practices that bring us closer to understanding the potential of art to represent different notions of value in the contemporary.
224 pages, 19 x 28.5 cm, softcover including poster, Onomatopee (Eindhoven).