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Guest Post: Novels – the expression of the human condition

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

by Nicola Griffith

A couple of weeks ago I read the cover article of the Nov/Dec issue of Intelligent Life, “A One-Man Market,” by Bryan Appleyard. (It was excerpted in the Economist.) It’s about Andy Warhol and the market for his art.

Warhol is now the god of contemporary art… In 2010 his work sold for $313m and accounted for 17% of all contemporary auction sales.

That shocked me. Seventeen percent of all contemporary auction sales. For one man who made it very clear that he regarded art as a commodity. (more…)