Description: The first concerted attempt to detail the ways in which the free-market ethos has permeated the visual arts.
Review Quotes: "... she provides a foundational investigation, intensely researched, enlightening and often eloquent"--New Left Review
"... of great critical power"--Art & Language "... admirably thorough study of the Anglo-American art world"--Washington Post Book World "A superbly researched and invigorating study"--Library Journal "Wu has written as good an account as you will find of the sly, disingenuous ways in which free-market capitalism infiltrates art."--Art Review "This is a wonderful book."--Louise Bourgeois