This workshop will consider relationships between aesthetics and the market across several areas: fine arts, crafts, fashion, design, and even artists' reputations and "branding." Participants may address these and other relevant topics on these complex relationships, such as the meanings of art as a product in an industrial society and the nature of public consumption of art in museums, books, magazines, and purchases, especially for middle-class consumers. Participants are welcome to consider all aspects of the political economy of Victorian art and to bring case studies to the group's attention, if they wish. There will be a brief presentation at the beginning of the workshop on Ruskin's political economy of art and on one or two case studies to raise issues and questions, but not in any way to limit the course of the discussion.