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Artist, authorship & legacy : a reader / edited by Daniel McClean.

Summary:

"Artistic authorship is fundamental to how we both interpret and value artworks. The figure of the solitary, creative genius underpins the symbolic and monetary values we ascribe to artworks; yet artistic authorship, like ownership, is often contested and unstable. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, written from legal, art historical, and art market perspectives, critically examines the construction and iteration of the artist-author both during the lifetime of the artist and beyond--whenn artistic authorship is stewarded by others, including artists' estates, foundations and museums. Drawing on current cases and legal disputes, this important anthology addresses enduring issues that have become central to the contemporary art world, such as the collision between artists' rights and the rights of owners of artworks, the problems of authentication and who has the final authority to determine authenticity, and the role of artists' estates as legacy guardians"--Page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781909932456
ISBN: 1909932450
Physical Description: 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: London : Ridinghouse, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part One Authorship and artists' rights -- Artists' rights in the United States: or, a remembrance of claims occasionally checked / Joan Kee -- Training ground for moral rights: MASS MoCA v. Christoph Büchel / Donn Zaretsky -- Retraction / Martha Buskirk -- Up for grabs; or, artistic authorship in the age of the flipper: Kreuk v. Vō / Christian Viveros-Fauné -- Authoring contradictions: modern appropriation art and postmodern copyright law in Cariou v. Prince / Nate Harrison -- Timeless/authorless / John C. Welchman -- The author stripped bare by its employees: artistic authorship in the twenty-first century and beyond / Lisa Rosendahl -- Part Two The artwork, aura, and authentication -- Demonstrable legacy; or, what sculptors leave behind / Penelope Curtis -- From the object to the archive: guaranteeing authorship and ownership in contemporary art / Alessandra Donati -- Score, performance, and the posthumous conductor / Shane Burke -- Hélio Oiticica: a principle of renewal / Guy Brett -- Artists' legacies, authentication, and the art market: not always a happy ménage / Georgina Adam -- Brave new art market: unsilencing the authenticators / Judith Bresler -- Artistic authorship, legacy, and expert liability in the French art market / Corinne Hershkovitch -- Authentication and the Italian art market / Giuseppe Calabi -- Part Three Legacy and its stewards -- Approaches to dealing with artists' estates / Loretta Würtenberger and Karl von Trott zu Solz -- What's an artist to do?--Artist-endowed foundations and legacy stewardship in the United States / Christine J. Vincent -- Artists' estates as guardians of artistic legacy: custodians or gatekeepers? / Daniel McClean -- Marchel Duchamp, Foundation, 1917: a controversial history / Dawn Ades -- Thing 000955 (Martha Graham's choreographies) / Agency -- A brass-plated boxing ring: foundations, artists' estates, and legacy / Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro -- Appendix; or, some adjectival notes on authorship and legacy / Gilane Tawadros.