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 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 repatriation early in its history. Joselit argues that the property values of white supremacy underlie the ideology of possessive individualism animating modern art, and he considers issues of identity and proprietary authorship.
Joselit redefines art’s politics, arguing that these pertain not to an artwork’s content or form but to the way it is “captured,” made to represent powerful interests―whether a nation, a government, or a celebrity artist collected by oligarchs. Artworks themselves are not political but occupy at once the here and now and an “elsewhere”―an alterity―that can’t ever be fully appropriated. The history of modern art, Joselit asserts, is the history of transforming this alterity into private property.
Narrating scenes from the emergence and capture of modern art―touching on a range of topics that include the Byzantine church, French copyright law, the 1900 Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois, the conceptual artist Adrian Piper, and the controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket―Joselit argues that the meaning of art is its infinite capacity to generate experience over time.
Author(s): Anshul Verma, Pradeepika Verma, Kiran Kumar Pattanaik, Lalit Garg
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 330
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: RNN-Based Machine Translation for Indian Languages
Chapter 2: Dynamic Movie Ticket Price Prediction Using Machine Learning
Chapter 3: Designing a GUI for Offline Text-Independent Writer Identification System
Chapter 4: Soil Fertility Prediction Using a Soft Computing Approach
Chapter 5: Psychological Distress Detection, Classification and Assistance Using AI
Chapter 6: Fast and Efficient Text Searching in Compressed Data Using Burrows–Wheeler Transform
Chapter 7: A Comprehensive Exploration of Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Deep Learning Techniques
Chapter 8: Hand Sign Recognition Using LeNet-like Architecture
Chapter 9: Automated Kinship Recognition through Facial Feature Matching
Chapter 10: Ensemble Convolutional Neural Network: A Bidimensional EMD Model for ECG Denoising
Chapter 11: Wrapper-Based Feature Selection for Big Data asing a Multi-Core Environment
Chapter 12: MDAKB: A Metadata-Driven Approach for Multilingual Knowledge Base Generation for Agricultural Domains in the Indian Context
Chapter 13: Melanoma Prediction from Skin Lesions Using Convolutional Neural Network against the Support Vector Machine Learning Algorithm to Achieve Maximum Accuracy and Minimum Loss
Chapter 14: Fusion-Based Morphological Watershed Segmentation Algorithm for Medical Images
Chapter 15: Music Recommendation System to Address the Problem of Long Tail Using Multi-Stage Graph
Chapter 16: Speech-Based Access of Agricultural Commodity Prices and Weather Information in the Kannada Language and Its Dialects
Chapter 17: Weather Classification: Image Embedding Using Convolutional Autoencoder and Predictive Analysis Based on Stacked Generalization
Chapter 18: COVID-19 Confirmed Case Prediction after Vaccination Using Deep Learning Models
Chapter 19: Recognition Model for Facial Expression Using Machine Learning
Chapter 20: Sentiment Analysis and Sarcasm Detection in Indian General Election Tweets
Chapter 21: Image Generation Using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Chapter 22: Human Activity Identification Using Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 23: Heartbeat-Based Failure Detector of Perfect P Class for Synchronous Hierarchical Distributed Systems
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