Art’s Properties
$42.64
- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2023
Summary
In this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity, while the qualities of the artist, nation, or period themselves became valuable properties. Joselit explores repatriation, explaining that this is not just a contemporary conflict between the Global South and Euro-American museums, noting that the Louvre, the first modern museum, was built on looted works and faced demands for restitution and repatri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691236049 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691236046 |
| Author: | David Joselit |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 195mm x 123mm |
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Critics Review
“A fascinating history of art and representation debates … [from] the founding of the Louvre … to modern controversies over repatriation and representation.”—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews
”[In Art’s Properties], David Joselit moves beyond the proprietary tendencies of the modern artist to advocate for an ethos of freedom and commonality… . Provocative.”—Alex Kitnick, 4Columns
“Joselit takes on often-debated topics like artistic cultural appropriation and the repatriation of artworks, grounding them in current understanding ofthe legacy of colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy. Art’s Properties is an excellentfollow-up to the author’s After Art.” * Choice *
About The Author
David Joselit
David Joselit is professor and chair of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of After Art (Princeton); Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization, winner of the 2021 Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation; and other books.
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