European Art Market and the First World War - Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 19101925

The outbreak of the First World War shattered the European art market. In its place, Maddalena Alvi argues, can be found the origins of a recognisably modern market of nationalised spheres driven by capitalist investment and speculation, yet open to wider social strata.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The European market before 1914; 2. The great conflagration (1914-1918); 3. 'Wartime cultural changes' (1914-1918); 4. Post-war markets (1918-1925); 5. 'The challenges of new markets'; 6. Cementing nationalisation (1918-1925); Conclusion: the end of the European art market.

About the author

Maddalena Alvi completed her Ph.D. in history at the University of Cambridge and has worked as a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester.

Product details

• Authors: Maddalena Alvi, Maddalena (University of Manchester) Alvi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009600811
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0960081-1
• No. of pages: 285
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Economic history, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Western Europe, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Art: Financial Aspects, Western Continental Europe