Brill's "Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets" is a
peer-reviewed book series dedicated to original scholarship on the
social, cultural, and economic mechanisms underlying the circulation of
art. Over the last two decades interest in the formation, display, and
dissolution of art collections increased tremendously; art markets,
trade routes, and dealer networks became a rich field of
interdisciplinary inquiry. Scholarship brought forth a lot of
information about the flamboyant personalities to whom the possession of
art was a lifestyle; regarding the "social life of things", i.e. the
provenance of individual artworks, many research gaps could be closed.
This shift in scholarly attention from the production side to the
consumption side of the art world is also reflected in the emergence of
specialized post-graduate courses offered by a number of institutions
internationally, as well as an ever-increasing stream of exhibitions,
conferences, and publications devoted to the subject. Brill's book
series accommodates scholarly monographs, collections of essays,
conference proceedings, and works of reference that engage in the
broadly defined topic of art markets and collecting practices throughout
history.

Editor-in-Chief: Christian Huemer, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Editorial Board: Malcolm Baker (University of California, Riverside),
Ursula Frohne (University of Cologne), Hans van Miegroet (Duke
University, Durham), Inge Reist (Frick Collection, New York), Adriana
Turpin (Institut d'Études Supérieures des Arts, London), Filip Vermeylen
(Erasmus University, Rotterdam)

Call for Manuscripts:
We invite scholars to submit their English language manuscript proposal
for the new book series to Liesbeth Hugenholtz, Acquisitions Editor Art
at Brill (hugenholtzbrill.com) or to the series editor Christian Huemer
(chuemergetty.edu).