Art's Properties

by David Joselit

Book Overview

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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691236046
• ISBN13: 9780691236049
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.6" x 7.8"