"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.
Contents:
Part four: provenance research instrumentalized -- Anne Higonnet. Part one: inscribing provenance -- Afterword: the social life of 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 ReĢgime 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.
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