- Summary
- "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.
- Series
- Issues & debates
Issues & debates.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2013]
©2013
- Contents
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Introduction / Gail Feigenbaum and Inge Reist
Part one: inscribing provenance
Manifest provenance / Gail Feigenbaum
Issues of provenance in the last emperor's art collecting / Zaixin Hong
Part two: the time and place of provenance
From place to place: provenience, provenance, and archaeology / Rosemary A. Joyce
Provenance and value: the reception of Ancien Régime works of art under the French Revolution / Dominique Poulot
Part three: provenance and commerce
From Mariette to Joullain: provenance and value in Eighteenth-century French auction catalogs / Sophie Raux
Provenance as pedigree: the marketing of British portraits in Gilded Age America / Elizabeth A. Pergam
Part four: provenance research instrumentalized
Failure of provenance research in Germany / Tilmann von Stockhausen
Marketing the defamed: on the contradictory use of provenances in the Third Reich / Uwe Fleckner
Transfigured books: notes on some marks left by owners in books of American poetry printed from 1610 to 1820 / Roger E. Stoddard
Future circulations: on the work of Hans Haacke and Maria Eichhorn / Jeannine Tang
Afterword: the social life of provenance / Anne Higonnet.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Feigenbaum, Gail.
Reist, Inge Jackson.
- Notes
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"This volume evolved from the session "Provenance: The Transformative Power," held at the 96th annual College Art Association conference in Dallas, 21 February 2008."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Gail Feigenbaum and Inge Reist -- Part one: inscribing provenance -- Manifest provenance / Gail Feigenbaum -- Issues of provenance in the last emperor's art collecting / Zaixin Hong -- Part two: the time and place of provenance -- From place to place: provenience, provenance, and archaeology / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Provenance and value: the reception of Ancien Régime works of art under the French Revolution / Dominique Poulot -- Part three: provenance and commerce -- From Mariette to Joullain: provenance and value in Eighteenth-century French auction catalogs / Sophie Raux -- Provenance as pedigree: the marketing of British portraits in Gilded Age America / Elizabeth A. Pergam -- Part four: provenance research instrumentalized -- Failure of provenance research in Germany / Tilmann von Stockhausen -- Marketing the defamed: on the contradictory use of provenances in the Third Reich / Uwe Fleckner -- Transfigured books: notes on some marks left by owners in books of American poetry printed from 1610 to 1820 / Roger E. Stoddard -- Future circulations: on the work of Hans Haacke and Maria Eichhorn / Jeannine Tang -- Afterword: the social life of provenance / Anne Higonnet.
