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College Art Association, 103rd Annual Conference New York, February 11 - 14, 2015 Panel: The Meaning of Prices in the History of Art Call for papers Over the last few decades, price information for art markets of the past has been collected systematically and made accessible in larger aggregates. Against all expectations, this has not resulted in data-intensive and computationally intensive research due to all kinds of methodological and logistical challenges. Various types of regression analysis, for instance, are not used in the humanities, in spite of the fact that art historians critically analyzing “big data” could trigger significant epistemological breakthroughs.This is particularly true when investigating the relationship between prices (as proxy for revealed preferences or “taste”) and various types of value, as well as their relationship to new forms of artistic creation, collecting patterns, buyer preferences, and so forth. While interest in how art is created, financed, distributed, and acquired throughout the centuries is not new, this session aims to solicit new types of questions revolving around the sociocultural formations underlying pricing mechanisms and value systems. Deadline for proposals: 9 May 2014 Chairs: Christian Huemer, Getty Research Institute; and Hans van Miegroet, Duke University. Email: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] For participation requirements and details of the conference, please see: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2015CallforParticipation.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~