{"id":1046,"date":"2009-06-03T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2009-06-03T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:19:44","slug":"publishing-art-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/publishing-art-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing art books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The managing director of Thames &amp; Hudson gives a clear overview, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/article.asp?id=17437\">in <em>The Art Newspaper<\/em><\/a> of some of the problems in the contemporary publishing of art books.  It seems a sound article, but I&#8217;d like to pick up a couple of points.<\/p>\n<p>He writes that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;preoccupation with low prices has had the pernicious effect of devaluing books in the minds of consumers&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;but seems to imply that Amazon is mainly to blame. He doesn&#8217;t mention the effect of near slave-labour printing in the Far East, as a factor that has allegedly allowed publishers to drop prices for huge coffee-table tomes that might have otherwise retailed at twice the price.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentions in passing (and might have said more about) another trend that is, in a different way, &#8220;devaluing books in the minds of consumers&#8221; &mdash; the journalistic hunger to sniff at the dirty-linen drawer of dead artists and thus to&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;appropriate art for contemporary society\u2019s great mass-market fuel: celebrity&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The managing director of Thames &amp; Hudson gives a clear overview, in The Art Newspaper of some of the problems &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/publishing-art-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-access-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}