Text:German / English. 256 p.; ill.; 21x29,5 cm. Artists : Irène Athanassakis, Atelier van Lieshout, Manuela Barth / Barbara U. Schmidt, Michael Clegg / Martin Guttmann, Claude Closky, Öyvind Fahlström, Plamen Dejanoff, Harun Farocki, Hans-Peter Feldmann, General Idea, Liam Gillick, Eva Grubinger, Andreas Gursky, Swetlana Heger, Christian Jankowski, Bernhard Khoury, Accès Local, Andree Korpys / Markus Löffler, Matthieu Laurette, Louise Lawler, Martin Le Chevallier, Masato Nakamura, Kyong Park, Daniel Pflumm, Christopher Roth / Franz Stauffenberg, Joseph Sappler, Santiago Sierra, Zhou Tiehai, Zhuang Hui, Peter Zimmermann, Malika Ziouech. - Essays by : Konstantin Adamopoulos, Gerard A. Goodrow, Susan Hapgood, Michael Hutter, Helene Karmasin, Michael Muller, Andreas Spiegel, Wolfgang Ullrich. " Globalization expands and contracts daily, as art and artists cross and recross borders. Motorcycles, fashion houses, and vacuum cleaners find themselves exhibited in art museums, complete with their corporate identities intact. Corporate collections grow in size and influence, while Saatchi & Saatchi and Altoids Curiously Strong Mints roll off gallery-goers' tongues. Art & Economy gathers together essays which take a variety of stands on these multiple interrelations, as well as on artists whose work deals directly with our economic reality, such as Acces Local, Liam Gillick, Eva Grubinger, and Peter Zimmerman. " Fine!