Charlotte Gould, Artangel and Financing British Art: Adapting to Social and Economic Change

Since Iain Pears’s The Discovery of Painting (1988) and David Solkin’s Painting for Money (1993), art historians have demonstrated the fruitfulness of exploring British art through the lens of the art market, patronage and cultural policies. They have shown that the funding models of art, whether they involve institutions or patronage, or both, actually shape art practices as much as they respond to artists’ creativity. Charlotte Gould’s book, which explores the contemporary social, economic ...