Show me the money: the image of finance, 1700 to the present
Balaskas, Bill (2014) Show me the money: the image of finance, 1700 to the present. [Exhibition/show]
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'Show Me The Money' asks what does 'the market' look like? What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible?
The group exhibition charts 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. The project asks how artists have grappled with the increasingly intangible and self-referential nature of money and finance, from the South Sea Bubble of the eighteenth century to the global financial crisis of 2008.
The exhibition includes an array of media: paintings, prints, photographs, videos, artefacts, and instruments of financial exchange both 'real' and imagined. Indeed the exhibition also charts the development of an array of financial visualisations, including stock tickers and charts, newspaper illustrations, bank adverts, and electronic trading systems.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated 164 page book, edited by Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh and Paul Crosthwaite, and published by Manchester University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9780719096259.
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