Art’s Properties / / David Joselit.

A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize powerIn 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 pe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 8 color + 3 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Alienability and Alterity
  • Constituent Moments 1793–1815
  • Modern Art Was Always Conceptual
  • The Burden of Representation
  • Witness
  • The Object as Witness
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Image Credits