‘An indefatigable intermediary’

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-558
Author(s):  
Eliot W Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Art Market ◽  
World Market ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Mary Magdalen ◽  
The World ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Cleveland Museum Of Art

Abstract At a time when museum curatorship in America was in its infancy, Harold Woodbury Parsons (1882–1967) scouted and negotiated for outstanding works of art for the cash-rich Cleveland Museum of Art, which opened to the public in 1916. As its European representative (1925–41), he acquired such masterworks as the Stroganoff Ivory, El Greco’s Holy Family with St Mary Magdalen, and the Warren tondo by Filippino Lippi, all during the late 1920s. During a lifetime’s work in the art market, in which he worked for private collectors and other museums, this was his most important achievement. What he acquired for the Cleveland Museum is vividly recounted in the art agent’s correspondence, until now, almost entirely unpublished. After moving to Rome in 1910, Parsons first served as ‘an indefatigable intermediary’ in the world market for antiquities. Later, with the blessing of Edward Waldo Forbes and Paul J. Sachs – director and assistant director, respectively, of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum – and with a host of European contacts, he was able to ‘gun for’ art for an ever expanding number of clients.

scholarly journals The role of the economic crisis on the competitiveness of the agri-food sector in the main Mediterranean countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Crescimanno ◽  
A. Galati ◽  
T. Bal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Market ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

The world economic crisis that, since 2008 has also struck the real economy, cannot be attributed only to the United States bubble which in 2007 involved the mortgage credit market, but it is the result of a series of factors among which the imbalance of the financial market, of the public accounts of the main economies and the real sector. Also agriculture, which has always been considered an anti-cyclic sector, has seen a strong slowdown with a plunge in the trade flows. This paper analyses the changes which happened to the competitive position in the world market of some Mediterranean countries and of France, Italy, Spain and Turkey in particular trying, moreover, to understand the vulnerability of the countries belonging to the EU concerning their integration into an economic and monetary union. The results show how much the crisis has involved all the countries bringing, on the whole, a reduction of the competitive potential in the international market which has been less strong in Turkey, the country characterized by a low per capita income and a low public debt. It can be seen, in particular, how the sectors with a strongest commercial specialization have showed a better resistance to the pressure of the recessive trend.  

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

. . . Revolutions born in the laboratory are to be sharply distinguished from revolutions born in society. Social revolutions are usually born in the minds of millions, and are led up to by what the Declaration of Independence calls "a long train of abuses," visible to all; indeed, they usually cannot occur unless they are widely understood by and supported by the public. By contrast, scientific revolutions usually take shape quietly in the minds of a few men, under cover of the impenetrability to most laymen of scientific theory, and thus catch the world by surprise. . . . But more important by far than the world's unpreparedness for scientific revolutions are their universality and their permanence once they have occurred. Social revolutions are restricted to a particular time and place; they arise out of particular circumstances, last for a while, and then pass into history. Scientific revolutions, on the other hand, belong to all places and all times. . . . Works of thought and many works of art have a . . . chance of surviving, since new copies of a book or a symphony can be transcribed from old ones, and so can be preserved indefinitely; yet these works, too, can and do go out of existence, for if every copy is lost, then the work is also lost. The subject matter of these works is man, and they seem to be touched with his mortality. The results of scientific work, on the other hand, are largely immune to decay and disappearance.

scholarly journals Mythical Islands of Value: Free Ports, Offshore Capitalism, and Art Capital

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Erik Post ◽  
Filipe Calvão
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Free Port ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Global Art

The Geneva Free Port in Switzerland has paved the way for a new generation of art and luxury free ports. These are critical spatial pivots for the management of art assets, including storage and transactions of artworks, and serve as proxy to examine mechanisms for the capture and generation of value, integral but also outside the global art market. Drawing from the trajectory of the Geneva Free Port and an interdisciplinary body of scholarship on “offshore” and other special zones of production, and value circulation in human geography, anthropology, history, and sociology, this article frames free ports in a longer genealogy of offshore capitalism. First, we claim that the emergence of the Geneva Free Port prefigures and helps illuminate contemporary transformations in offshore capitalism; second, these spaces are more deeply imbricated with public and state authorities than previously suggested. Finally, a holistic understanding of art capital—works of art for investment and asset management—requires an encompassing view of free ports not as accidental and exceptional features in the world of high art but as spaces deeply implicated in the creation and operation of the art market more generally.

The Demise of the World of the Gutnajers: The Warsaw Art Market in World War II

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350
Author(s):  
Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Art Market ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Pre World War Ii

Abstract A substantial number of Jewish art and antiques dealers operated in pre-World War II Warsaw. Particularly respected were the salons of the brothers Bernard and Abe Gutnajer. Virtually everyone in their milieu perished in the Warsaw ghetto or Treblinka. Taking their place were new “Aryan” dealers and a clientele of “new” money. The Warsaw art market under the German occupation experienced a particular growth between the start of the Jewish ghetto’s liquidation in mid-1942 and the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, as “abandoned” property flooded the market. After decades of subsequent turbulent history, researchers can hardly hope to document the provenance of more than a fraction of tens of thousands of surviving works of art and valuable antiques.

The Growth of Entrepreneurship in India c. 1850–1950 with Some Latin American Comparisons

Itinerario ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Claude Markovits
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
World Market ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Private Business Sector ◽  
Business Sectors ◽  
Limited Process

Among Third World countries, India stands out as having one of the most developed ‘big business sectors’, with a recent tendency by some firms to go multinational. This notwithstanding the fact that the public sector plays a major role in the Indian economy. Although the origins of some of India's business groups go back to pre-colonial times, most of them trace their beginnings to the 1850–1950 period, the ‘second colonial century’, during which India underwent a limited process of industrial growth as well as became a major exporter of some agricultural commodities to the world market (tea, jute, cotton, oilseeds, and, prior to 1910, opium and indigo). There are obvious parallels there with the developments in some Latin American countries, particularly Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, which also emerged as major suppliers of raw materials (coffee, sugar, wheat, nonferrous metals) while they built up manufacturing sectors of various magnitudes (with Brazil in the lead). However, the private business sector in these countries presents a picture which differs in many ways from the Indian case. It seems worth attempting a comparison between those two very different underdeveloped regions of the world, the Indian subcontinent and Latin America, in the hope of being able to put the Indian case in a broader perspective. Given the broad similarity in the constraints under which capitalist enterprise laboured in those two areas, a study of the differences in entrepreneurial responses might bring to light certain specificities in Indian entrepreneurial history which often go unnoticed.

Subroto Roy and William E. James (editors). Foundations of India's Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the I 990s. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 1992. 339 pp.Hardbound. Indian Rupees 275.00.

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-340
Author(s):  
Ziaul Haque
Keyword(s):  
World Market ◽  
Socialist Economy ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Public ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
Recent Policy

India, with 800 million people, vast land resources, heterogeneous linguistic, cultural, religious, and ethnic groups and caste and class divisions, faces complex and formidable social, economic, and political problems. After experimenting with a mixed and controlled, 'socialist' economy for four decades since 1947, in which the public sector played a predominant role, a new strategy of liberalisation and deregulation is being formulated with the aim of integrating Indian economy with the world market. This implies a framework of a liberal market economy with less control and more freedoms. The book under review is the outcome of a large interdisciplinary research project initiated in 1986 and completed in 1990 by Indian and foreign scholars. Divided into the two main sections of politics and economics, the book comprises ten independent but interlinked essays/chapters which discuss some of the longterm socio-economic problems facing India. The recent policy of liberalisation, it is important to note, reflects the urgency and relevance of some of the theses presented in this important book. The removal of unnecessary internal controls, greater stress on the private sector, curtailment of wasteful expenditures, depreciation of the Indian rupee and its freefloating against foreign currencies, and other economic reforms recommended are intended to enhance the comparative advantage of the Indian economy and to make it more competitive in the world market.

China in the World Market

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
World Market ◽  
The World

China und Lateinamerika

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (142) ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Enrique Dussel Peters
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
World Market ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges

China's socioeconomic accumulation in the last 30 years has been probably one of the most outstanding global developments and has resulted in massive new challenges for core and periphery countries. The article examines how China's rapid and massive integration to the world market has posed new challenges for countries such as Mexico - and most of Latin America - as a result of China's successful exportoriented industrialization. China's accumulation and global integration process does, however, not only question and challenges the export-possibilities in the periphery, but also the global inability to provide energy in the medium term.

Art Market and Its Investment Capacity

2010 ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
A. Sarkisyants
Keyword(s):  
Art Market ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Russian Art Market ◽  
Investment Capacity ◽  
Comparative Rate

The article investigates the world art market trends. It considers the main market indicators, comparative rate of return and the prospects of the market as well as the problems of art banking. Special attention is paid to the Russian art market.

TRENDS OF THE WORLD MARKET FOODNET

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-119
Author(s):  
O.N. Mikhaylyuk ◽  
Ya.N. Dolina ◽  
E.A. Strelka
Keyword(s):  
World Market ◽  
The World
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