The Artangel Trust, an independent art commissioning agency based in London, has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. This book reconciles two approaches used to look at contemporary British art, an economic one and an aesthetic one. By looking into the forms of patronage devised by Artangel and into the projects the organization has made possible since 1985, Charlotte Gould explores how specifically British ways of financing art-taking into account the history which has shaped British patronage-have informed new visual possibilities.