Luxury Goods - The Cost of Art

Luxury Goods -1st Editon The Cost of Art. The Value of Art A picture is worth 50 words, not 49 or 51. Is the practice, production, and consumption of art a luxury? What are the commercial, physical, spiritual, and mental costs of art? What is, or are, the value(s) of art? Luxury Goods publications are dedicated to questioning 'cost' and 'value' through art. Open up, and celebrate art, money, pain, outsiders, guilt and uncertainty across the world. Read 50 words, take part! Introduction by Michael Glover, and afterword by Tracey Mobley, layout by Anne Tolstoy-Skipwith From outsider art to conceptual art, all creative practice has a VALUE invested in it, thus making the process or end result a luxury good. 50 artists have considered how art practice is affected by the idea that the items created are defective luxury goods. Submissions were accompanied by a 50 word description of the costs (emotional, physical, material, financial,sartorial) involved in creating the piece.