Author : Gail Feigenbaum,Inge Reist,Inge Jackson Reist
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606061220
Provenance by Gail Feigenbaum,Inge Reist,Inge Jackson Reist Pdf
"This volume of essays offers new arguments regarding the significance of the social biography of art and the transformative power of ownership. It realigns the traditional art-historical paradigm that focuses on the moment of an object's origin and instead considers the longue durée of ownership. Whereas the term provenance may call to mind little more than a list of owners or the legal questions raised by competing entitlement claims, the essays in this book demonstrate that a nuanced approach recuperates important, even dramatic, aspects of the history of art. The authors present a broad perspective on provenance, investigating examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and from ancient archaeology to conceptual art. They explore how stories of ownership are attached to objects, analyze important distinctions between provenance and provenience, and show how provenance can be monetized, politicized, suppressed, or otherwise instrumentalized."--Page 4 of cover.