... This chapter delineates the process by which a personal collection becomes part of a permanent archive within an established museum. It examines the donation by Walter and Louise Arensberg of Marcel Duchamp's works to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as its case study. The correspondence between...

... Domenico di Piero (1406–97) was a jeweler, an antiquarian, and a collector active in Venice during most of the fifteenth century. By the end of his life, he had amassed a huge fortune consisting of a collection of precious objects, cash, and real estate holdings. Chapter 19 establishes...

... Taking art’s medieval definition—the way—as the starting point, chapter 2 explores how art is less a practice of object-making than a direct engagement with duration. Working with Henri Bergson’s concepts of intuition and sympathy, the question becomes to what degree forms of making are always...

... Constructed in 1965 in rural Dayi County in Sichuan Province, the monumental 114-figured sculptural installation Rent Collection Courtyard was instantly hailed as the “atomic bomb of the art world” worthy of study by all artists. Its legacy powerfully underscores the inextricably intertwined...

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... collection museum. The chapter argues that, in the developmental history of personal art collections, there is a tandem history of worker, racial, and land dispossession. In tracking this, the chapter materializes the wealth accumulated through the suppression of collective bargaining and the dismantling...

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..., and discusses the period's different theories of relational art. The chapter relies on archival material and analysis of artworks by artists Oleg Kulik, Rirkrit Tiravajia, and Douglas Gordon, collective IRWIN. This chapter argues that Manifesta's image of a pacified Europe was achieved by the conversion...

... “Chapter 9: The Art of Belonging” accounts for Manifesta's investment in the city of Rotterdam as the formerly industrial city worked to forge a new identity in an era of economic globalization. It draws from close analysis of materials produced by local art collective NEsTWORK in response...

... crucial questions of “ownership” of these art collections. museums art gender diversity ...