Show me the money: The image of finance, 1700 to the present - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719096251 ISBN 13: 9780719096259

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States. It tells the story of how artists have grappled with the increasingly intangible and self-referential nature of money, from the South Sea Bubble to our current crisis.

Show me the money sets out the history and politics of representations of finance through five essays by academic experts and curators, and is interspersed with provocative think pieces by notable public commentators on finance and art. The book, and the exhibition on which it is based, explore a wide range of images, from satirical eighteenth-century prints by William Hogarth and James Gillray to works by celebrated contemporary artists such as Andreas Gursky and Molly Crabapple. It also charts the development of an array of financial visualisations, including stock tickers and charts, newspaper illustrations, bank adverts and electronic trading systems.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Crosthwaite is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Peter Knight is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester

Nicky Marsh is a Professor in English Literature at Southampton University

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0719096251
• ISBN 13: 9780719096259
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Crosthwaite Paul, Knight Peter, Marsh Nicky