Painting and publishing as cultural industries

Painting and publishing as cultural industries
Author: Claartje Rasterhoff
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9048524113

Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries, 1580-1800 addresses how a small country like the Dutch Republic could become a major player in the creation of cultural goods during the Golden Age. On the basis of quantitative and qualitative sources from art history and book history, Claartje Rasterhoff traces the evolution of the painting and publishing industries from modest trades to booming industries. Informed by studies on cultural industries, she focuses on the role of industrial organization in shaping patterns of growth and innovation. Much like their present-day counterparts, early modern Dutch cultural industries were spatially concentrated, highly networked, and institutionally embedded. This distinct organizational structure helped to reduce uncertainty in the market and stimulated the commercial and creative potential of painters and publishers, for a century at least. Dutch painters and publishers had catered to their markets so rapidly and in such variety, that the exceptional levels of output, quality, and innovation accomplished during the first half of the seventeenth century could not be sustained. As producers came to face saturated domestic markets, they took to limiting risks and strenghtening their distribution and marketing activities. By introducing the concepts of business cycles and spatial clusters, Rasterhoff offers a novel explanation

Friedrich List (1789-1846)

Friedrich List (1789-1846)
Author: Eugen Wendler
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642545548

Friedrich List (1789-1846) was a prophet of social market economy, national economy and the infant-industry theory. In this comprehensive biography the international influence and reception of List’s theories is presented together with his extraordinary vita. List was a notable early advocate of economic integration of the many separate states of 19th century Germany. His basic theory is that of productive resources and the need to protect infant industries until they have matured enough to stand alone. He is recognized as a visionary economist with social responsibility and as an influential railway pioneer. He was a liberal and a democrat who promoted an extended representative democracy, including respect for human rights and civil liberties, to accompany industrial development. His highly influential main work “The National System of Political Economy” has been translated into many languages. Eugen Wendler, the renowned author and List expert, not only builds upon his many years of research, but also discusses several new sources. This richly illustrated book is as informative as it is well written.

The Louvre

The Louvre
Author: Paul George Konody
Publisher:
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1910
Genre: Art museums
ISBN:

The Vatican Gallery

The Vatican Gallery
Author: Vatican City. Direzione generale dei monumenti, musei e gallerie pontificie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1890
Genre:
ISBN: