Provenance : an alternate history of art / edited by Gail Feigenbaum and Inge Reist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feigenbaum, Gail.

Reist, Inge Jackson

Kowell Family Art History Fund.

Series:

Issues & debates

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Provenance.

Art.

Physical Description:

vii, 223 pages : illlustrations ; 26 cm.

regular print

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2012.

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Gail Feigenbaum and Inge Reist

Part one: inscribing provenance

Manifest provenance / Gail Feigenbaum

Issues of provenance in the last emporer'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

The 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.

Notes:

"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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kowell Family Art History Fund.

ISBN:

1606061224

9781606061220

OCLC:

865516409

Publisher Number:

99953227538