Larissa Buchholz is assistant professor of communication studies and, by courtesy, sociology at Northwestern University. She was a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, the first woman elected from her discipline. She serves on the editorial board of Sociological Theory and is an affiliated faculty member of the Critical Realism Network at Yale University.
"""Larissa Buchholz has written a magnificent account of the Global art market over the last half century. The book combines extensive, and highly nuanced, discussion of a wide range of relevant cultural theories, with an enormous amount of wonderfully researched data and studies of the Global art market and the relevant personnel including artists, curators, gallerists, art critics, art purchasers, and museum personnel. As a result, the book is an empirical and theoretical treasure.""---David Halle, Social Forces ""An amazingly rich study, with a high level of density, complexity, and nuance, a reference book for now and future generations.""---Kitty Zijlmans, 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual"