Ian Wallace on Isabelle Graw's Three Cases of Value Reflection: Ponge, Whitten, Banksy (2021)
Three Cases of Value Reflection: Ponge, Whitten, Banksy (2021) Banksy, Love Is in the Bin, 2018, aerosol paint, acrylic paint, canvas, board, 40 x 31 x 7''. Photo: Jack Taylor/Getty Images. Isabelle Graw, ISABELLE GRAW’S oft-cited 2009 book, High Price, which explores art’s economy of fame and prestige as the prototype for creative labor under capitalism, was published just after the collapse of a speculative bubble in the market for contemporary art. Now, roughly a decade later, Three Cases of Value Reflection: Ponge, Whitten, Banksy arrives contemporaneously with a series of meteori...
Source: artforum.com