The "Economics of Contemporary Art" by Elisa Zerloni deals with the markets, strategies and star making system in art. A part of this book is dedicated to auctions and the secondary market, which you can read a summary of below.The following text, is from the Persian text translated by Hamidreza Sheshjavani and Leila Mirsafian and published by Farhangistan Honar Publishing.

Many factors are involved in holding an auction, which most are hidden from the eyes of an observer. When a work of art is presented in a prominent auction, the arrangement of the work in the pre-auction show and catalog, the auctioneer, and even the emotions that are aroused during the process, all become very important. In the following, we will discuss some of these factors that...

Iran's publishing market is facing a shortage of authored books in the field of art economics, but you can still find titles written for the audience of this field. The book "Art Marketing Strategy" written by Dr. Mehdi Khademi and Shahin Parikhani is one of these works. This book seeks to provide a suitable framework for managers of art organizations and art collections to formulat...

The Arts & Economics, Analysis & Cultural Policy is an outstanding work of Bruno S. Frey, a famous Swiss economist and professor who has a long history in the field of political economy, culture and art. Using the economic perspective, this exciting book offers an alternative view to sociological or art historic approaches to art. The issues discussed include: institutions f...

This article was written by David Trasbi and translated into Persian by Kazem Farhadi. The present article, along with other articles by this author, was published in a book entitled "Economy and Culture" in 2003 by Ney Publishing."After a brief review of theories of creativity, we turn to the question of whether the production of works of art can be modeled as a process of rational...