Gallery districts of Barcelona: the strategic play of art dealers

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Title:	Gallery districts of Barcelona: the strategic play of art dealers
Author:	Rius, Joaquim
Other authors:	Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract:	This article focuses on Barcelona"s art market to explore the underlying factors behind the clustering of art dealers in several of the city"s districts. Drawing upon quantitative and qualitative data, the article analyses how such clustering reveals a strategic action in the sense attributed to it by Crozier and Friedberg (1981). Gallery districts are not a reflection of structural factors (economic, urban development-related or social) but the result of a combination of strategic choices either individual or collective which explain the permanence of leading gallery districts or the emergence of new ones.
Subject(s):	-Barris -Urbanisme -Artistes -Política cultural -Equipaments culturals -Art urbà -Barcelona (Catalunya : Àrea metropolitana) -Sociologia de l'art -Neighborhood -City planning -Artists -Cultural policy -Arts facilities -Municipal art -Barcelona (Catalonia : Metropolitan area) -Art and society
Rights:	(c) Taylor and Francis, 2012
Document type:	Article Article - Accepted version
Published by:	Taylor and Francis
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