What can art and artists bring to researching the origins and biographies of objects? How do they shed new light on - or even unsettle - existing approaches to such questions? Proposing the new term - artistic provenance research - the contributors to this innovative book illuminate art's capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways. Presenting in-depth examination of fascinating historical and contemporary examples, contributors to Artistic Provenance Research investigate knowledge-imagination dynamics, and questions of materiality, experimentation and speculation. They probe relationships between presences and absences, the aesthetic and the ontological, the scientific and the curatorial. The cases address a wide range of pressing issues of contemporary heritage research and practice, including those of colonialism and decolonization, ownership and art-markets, institutionalization, human remains, return and restitution. Through the exploration of selected artistic works in diverse media - including drama, performance, installation, photography and text - this book highlights the transformative potentials of artistic provenance research.
Produktdetails:
- Herausgeber:in: Tal Adler, Sharon Macdonald
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.02.2026
- Sprache: Englisch
- Seitenumfang: 208 Seiten
- ISBN: 9783837665536
Verlagskontakt: GPSR Kontakt | Hermannstraße 26 33602 Bielefeld | DE | E-Mail: live@transcript-verlag.de
