Introduction: Prizes and the Study of Culture

I. The Age of Awards

1. Prize Frenzy

2. Precursors of the Modern Cultural Prize

3. The Logic of Proliferation

4. Prizes as Entertainment

II. Peculiarities of the Awards Industry

5. The Making of a Prize

6. Taste Management

7. Trophies as Objects of Production and Trade

III. The Game and Its Players

8. Scandalous Currency

9. The New Rhetoric of Prize Commentary

10. Strategies of Condescension, Styles of Play

IV. The Global Economy of Cultural Prestige

11. The Arts as International Sport

12. The New Geography of Prestige

13. Prizes and the Politics of World Culture

Appendix A. The Rise of the Prize

Appendix B. Prizes and Commerce

Appendix C. Winner Take All: Six Lists

Notes

Index