Auctions and Emotions

Varia
By Rolande Bonnain-Dulon
English

Auction sale is a social practice that combines economic with symbolic, rational with emotional, individual with collective. The place where it is organized and the representations it conveys is very strongly connected with the specificities, the existence and perpetuation of various “worlds of art”. This is demonstrated on the example of primitive art collectors.

Keywords

  • Collector
  • art
  • Auction
  • Social reproduction
  • Primitive arts
Go to the article on Cairn-int.info