Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Patrick Modiano, Between the Fields of Limited Production and Large-Scale Production

Chapter 3 A Star Down-to-Earth: On Social Critique in Popular Culture

Chapter 4 Art Workers, Inequality, and the Labour Market: Values, Norms, and Alienation Across Three Generations of Artists

Chapter 5 Visual Artists’ Professional Situations and Trajectories Between Institutions and the Market

Chapter 6 The Art Market: Art’s Incomplete Mirror—Artistic Action’s Guiding Principles and Their Consequences for the Art Market

Chapter 7 When Market Promotes Individuality: Arts in Early Modern Japan from the Macrosociological Perspective

Chapter 8 The Art Market Facing New Connoisseurship: The Reception of Pieter Brueghel the Younger at Auction

Chapter 9 Collective-Artists: Actors on the Margins of the Global Field of Contemporary Art

Chapter 10 Hierarchies and Divisions in the Subfield of Gallery Owners: A Research on Art Galleries in Milan

Chapter 11 Mapping the Professional Self-Concepts of Gallery Owners: A Typology

Chapter 12 The Diffusion of Galleries in China (1991–2016)

Chapter 13 Magic Index on the Wall: Who Is the Most Valuable Artist of Them All?

Chapter 14 Can Contemporary Art Galleries Be Ranked? A Sociological Attempt from the Paris Case

Chapter 15 The Art Fair Boom and Its Contradictions

Chapter 16 Art Meets Capitalism: In Praise of Promising Potentialities?

Chapter 17 The Art, the Market, and Sociology: Concluding Remarks