Ingenious Marketing
摘要
This chapter explores the near century-long campaign that changed the definition of contemporary paintings from luxury wall décor priced on the basis of labor and materials to a unique product possessing a special aura that would ultimately remove any upper limit on price. This campaign laid the foundation for the liberation of art from traditional doctrines and, by placing the definition of art into the hands of artists, it pointed the way for the subsequent course of the history of modern art.