New Art From Emerging Markets by Iain Robertson

Our own Iain Robertson, head of Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute in London,  has a new book that will be published this month from Lund Humphries in collaboration with Sotheby’s Institute of Art. The first in a series of collaborative publications, New Art from Emerging Markets takes a look at how value in non-Western contemporary art is constructed largely by external political events and economic factors rather than aesthetic considerations. The book also considers whether it is better to let a new art market grow organically, driven by commercial imperatives, or for the government to step in to construct a cultural and economic infrastructure within which an art market can be placed.