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This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical category and seek to define its specific character in relation to other forms of artistic appropriation. Several authors explore the ethical issues raised by spoliation and their implications for the evaluation and interpretation of new work made with spolia. The contemporary fascination with spolia is part of a larger cultural preoccupation with reuse, recycling, appropriation and re-presentation in the Western world. All of these practices speak to a desire to make use of pre-existing artifacts (objects, images, expressions) for contemporary purposes. Several essays in this volume focus on the distinction between spolia and other forms of reused objects. While some authors prefer to elide such distinctions, others insist that spolia entail some form of taking, often violent, and a diminution of the source from which they are removed. The book opens with an essay by the scholar most responsible for the popularity of spolia studies in the later twentieth century, Arnold Esch, whose seminal article 'Spolien' was published in 1969. Subsequent essays treat late Roman antiquity, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Middle Ages, medieval and modern attitudes to spolia in Southern Asia, the Italian Renaissance, the European Enlightenment, modern America, and contemporary architecture and visual culture.
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Outside the “Center” The Appropriation Art in Slovakia and Turkey
With globalization, transformations experienced in the postmodern era have been observed simultaneously or almost simultaneously in nearly all parts of the world; thus, like in other countries, artistic transformations have also manifested themselves in Slovakia and Turkey with increased communication and transportation opportunities with the West. This study focuses on how the method of appropriation, which gained significance with postmodernism following its pioneers in the modern era, emerged, and developed in Slovakia and Turkey. This study, starting from the belief that the desire of postmodernism to resolve the concepts of centre-periphery was not fulfilled, addresses the dominance of Western art in the field of art and the necessity to diversify this reference point by considering that there are other arts besides Western art, which is mainly seen as the sole reference in art research worldwide. The two countries that appear to have completely different outlooks regarding the perspective of the beginning of artistic transformation and the use of appropriation have occasionally produced similar topics, especially during the 1990s. However, due to the different social structures of these two countries, differences have also been observed during this period.
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Between discipline and a hard place : the value of contemporary art
Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who may define what art really is. Jelinek contends that while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its liberal democratic potential. Between Discipline and a Hard Place describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called 'creative' arts. A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art world.
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Turntables and Tropes
The creative practice of remix is essential to contemporary culture, as the proliferation of song mashups, political remix videos, memes, and even streaming television shows like Stranger Things demonstrates. Yet remix is not an exclusively digital practice, nor is it even a new one, as there is evidence of remix in the speeches of classical Greek and Roman orators. Turntables and Tropes is the first book to address remix from a communicative perspective, examining its persuasive dimensions by locating its parallels with classical rhetoric. Through identifying, recontextualizing, mashing up, and applying rhetorical tropes to contemporary digital texts and practices, this groundbreaking book presents a new critical vocabulary that scholars and students can use to analyze remix. Building upon scholarship from classical thinkers such as Isocrates, Quintilian, Nāgārjuna, and Cicero and contemporary luminaries like Kenneth Burke, Richard Lanham, and Eduardo Navas, Scott Haden Church shows that an understanding of rhetoric offers innovative ways to make sense of remix culture.
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Intermediary liability and trade in follow-on innovation
Intellectual property rights have changed the market value and direction of artistic innovation throughout art history, in particular when new creations built on the art of predecessors. In this paper, we test how changes in legal frameworks and litigation risks affected market value and commercial trade around artistic reuses in the figurative arts and the ‘Appropriation Art’ movement in particular. Appropriation artists borrow images from different sources and incorporate them into new, derivative works of art. By doing so, they risk infringing copyright but also put auction trade and artwork availability at litigation risk as liability can extend to market intermediaries, such as auction houses, museums, or galleries. Using a differences-in-differences model and large-scale online data, we investigate the causal impact of the prominent Cariou v. Prince U.S. higher court decision on intermediary trade and the availability of artworks on sale in the Appropriation Art. As an exogenous shock, this decision changed the perceived litigation risk for market intermediaries around what constitutes fair use. Following the court decision, we find a temporary decline in the total number of global auctions in the Appropriation Art, a lower sales probability of these artworks, and a relocation of related auctions to non-U.S. houses.
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Turntables and Tropes
The creative practice of remix is essential to contemporary
culture, as the proliferation of song mashups, political remix
videos, memes, and even streaming television shows like
Stranger Things demonstrates. Yet remix is not an
exclusively digital practice, nor is it even a new one, as there is
evidence of remix in the speeches of classical Greek and Roman
orators. Turntables and Tropes is the first book to
address remix from a communicative perspective, examining its
persuasive dimensions by locating its parallels with classical
rhetoric. Through identifying, recontextualizing, mashing up, and
applying rhetorical tropes to contemporary digital texts and
practices, this groundbreaking book presents a new critical
vocabulary that scholars and students can use to analyze remix.
Building upon scholarship from classical thinkers such as
Isocrates, Quintilian, Nāgārjuna, and Cicero and contemporary
luminaries like Kenneth Burke, Richard Lanham, and Eduardo Navas,
Scott Haden Church shows that an understanding of rhetoric offers
innovative ways to make sense of remix culture.
eBook
Method sampling : how to build the future together
Method Sampling is explored through the works of a hip-hop orchestra, a disabled choreographer, a self-taught Black mycologist, a tiny house builder and a critical theorist.
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