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This book provides numerous examples to support the first claim of a massive growth in the defining role of the market and its playe rs during the art boom, who also increasingly have a say in establishing artistic value. There is indeed much to suggest that in rec ent years, whether or not an artwork was considered relevant in artistic terms depended to a greater extent on its market value. But this market value still depends on a symbolic value for its ultimate legitimacy. Without symbolic value, no market valuethis is the books se...[Read more]