Although the market for Canadian paintings is now of substantial magnitude, with several works having recently sold for well over a million dollars, it remains true that with very few exceptions, the works of Canadian painters are bought and sold only in Canada and held only by Canadian collectors. This market can thus be viewed as almost exclusively local, and it is therefore not clear that th...

Sanat dünyasında yüzyıllardır süre gelen iki önemli ve bir o kadar meşhur tartışma konusu vardır: Sanat, sanat içindir sanat, toplum içindir. Sanatın hem için de olması sanatçının/üreticinin sanatsever/tüketici ile sanatsal ortamda/pazarda buluşarak taraflara değer yaratması mümkündür. Kapitalist sistem içerisinde metaya dönüşen küreselleşmenin etkisi yaygın etki alanına ulaşmıştır. Gelinen son...

by ethnographic experience of weavings called varni, i want to say somethings about northwest nomads of iran and tehran society. movement of varni by motivation of market cause to rethink about nature of objects and processes of landscape-making anthropologically. exploring biography of cultural elements and forms became fascinating works among anthropologists. social biography of objects like ...

the present article aims to conduct an ethnographic study of the confrontation between the local culture and global commodities in baneh. theoretically, this article suggests that confrontation with the global should be understood in relation to neoliberal market, identityand collective ideologies. thus,while carrying out a participant observation,we interviewed fifteen people in baneh. the res...