Since the growth of the art market into a capitalized global art industry, public and academic discourse on art auctions has been dominated by record prices. Despite the financial potential of art auctions as well as the public and academic interest in art, understanding of auction prices is...

Chapter 1: Preface -- Chapter 2: The Triumph of Serious Art -- Chapter 3: Authentic Art and Artists -- Chapter 4: Exclusion -- Chapter 5: Distrust of Commerce and Commercialism -- Chapter 6: Sharing Art -- Chapter 7: Present and Future Changes -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Chapter 1: A Pragmatic approach to the arts -- Chapter 2: What values are, and how we learn to appreciate them -- Chapter 3: How Artists Imagine New Worlds -- Chapter 4: How the Audience, as Participant, Makes Worlds Real -- Chapter 5: Making Space for Cultural Civil Society.