David Joselit - Böcker

How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism. If European modernism was premised on the new-on surpassing the past, often by assigning it to the "traditional" societie...

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"The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres, styles, and ...

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Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures o...

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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 commo...

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A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize powerIn this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commod...

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Why modern and contemporary art-and art conservation-can't be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plastics Modern and contemporary art wouldn't exist without the invention of plastics. From sculpture to paint, and phot...

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Why modern and contemporary artand art conservationcan't be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plasticsModern and contemporary art wouldn't exist without the invention of plastics. From sculpture to paint, and photogr...

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How digital networks are transforming art and architectureArt as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being tr...

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El arte contemporáneo global y su uso creativo de la tradición, del pasado y del patrimonio, suponen un combate al legado eurocentrista establecido por el arte moderno.El arte contemporáneo global rompe el mito del modernismo europeo, al reacti...

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In a world where politics is conducted through images, the tools of art history can be used to challenge the privatized antidemocratic sphere of American television. American television embodies a paradox: it is a privately owned and operated publ...

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