Show me the money

The image of finance, 1700 to the present

edited by Crosthwaite Paul, Knight Peter, and Marsh Nicky

Published by Manchester University Press

Entertaining, lavishly illustrated series of essays that looks at the 'image of finance' - how finance has been represented pictorially since 1700
Coinciding with three exhibitions, the first one in Sunderland June 13th, which will show the original artworks reproduced in the book. It will be at the People's History Museum in Manchester in early 2015
Has five major essays by academics with think-pieces by financial journalists, an Executive Director of the Bank of England, an art critic and documentary maker, and a former city banker
Should have a wide appeal for art historians, cultural critics, finance journalists and social historians

Show me the money

The image of finance, 1700 to the present

edited by Crosthwaite Paul, Knight Peter, and Marsh Nicky

Published by Manchester University Press

Description

What does 'the market' look like? What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money: The image of finance, 1700 to the present 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. Richly illustrated, it tells the story of 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.

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.

Show me the money demonstrates that the visual culture of finance has not merely reflected prevailing attitudes to money and banking, but has been crucial in forging - and at times critiquing - the very idea of 'the market'.

Show me the money

The image of finance, 1700 to the present

edited by Crosthwaite Paul, Knight Peter, and Marsh Nicky

Published by Manchester University Press

Introduction - Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight and Nicky Marsh

1. Debt and credit - Nicky Marsh

2. What do you think about when you think about a market? - Andy Haldane

3. Framing finance - Paul Crosthwaite

4. Channels and codes, rails and freight: can you hear me now? - Bill Maurer

5. Animal spirits - Peter Knight

6. Markets without people - Justin Fox

7. The money shot - Isabella Streffen

8. Trollope, the State of the Nation novel and the good banker - Alex Preston

9. Booms and busts - Alistair Robinson

10.The only way is up baby - Ben Lewis

Index

Show me the money

The image of finance, 1700 to the present

edited by Crosthwaite Paul, Knight Peter, and Marsh Nicky

Published by Manchester University Press

Author Information

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