{"title":"David Joselit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Joselit\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into contemporary art and its evolving context within culture and society. His works delve into the intersections of art, media, and materiality, inviting readers to reconsider how art is produced, circulated, and perceived in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis that bridges theory and practice, with titles such as \u003cem\u003eAfter Art\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePlastics\u003c\/em\u003e challenging traditional narratives and expanding the conversation around the properties and influence of art in the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"after-art-by-david-joselit-9780691150444","title":"After Art","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArt 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 of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled by globalisation, artists and architects are emphasising networks as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the most interesting contemporary work in both fields is now based on visualising patterns of dissemination after objects and structures are produced, and after they enter into, and even establish, diverse networks. Behaving like human search engines, artists and architects sort, capture, and reformat existing content. Works of art crystallise out of populations of images, and buildings emerge out of the dynamics of the circulation patterns they will house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExamining the work of architectural firms such as OMA, Reiser + Umemoto, and Foreign Office, as well as the art of Matthew Barney, Ai Weiwei, Sherrie Levine, and many others, \u003ci\u003eAfter Art\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling and original theory of art and architecture in the age of global networks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[A] succulent little book.' - Flora Samuel, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Joselit points out a stimulating journey through recent art and architecture where his discourse functions as a sort of guide, complete with images and diagrams, within the illuminating text.' - Kieran Lyons, \u003ci\u003eLeonardo Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eAfter Art\u003c\/i\u003e is insightful and offers countless examples of the cultural and political forces influencing creative arts...[W]ell-referenced and clearly written.' - \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Joselit, a Yale professor and critic whose previous writings have assiduously observed the intersection of art and tech, lays his argument out with pedagogic steadiness.' - \u003ci\u003eArt Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46832161751276,"sku":"9780691150444","price":121.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2d91980c78ed3825df04f066deab6ae3.jpg?v=1758397453"},{"product_id":"plastics-by-david-joselit-9780691238821","title":"Plastics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy modern and contemporary art and art conservation can't be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plastics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModern and contemporary art wouldn't exist without the invention of plastics. From sculpture to paint, and photography to film, plastics have shaped every major medium of art. In turn, plastics have revolutionised art conservation, transforming the possibilities of preservation but also producing new challenges for conservators struggling to preserve toxic and degrading material. Hailed as utopian in the twentieth century, plastics today are often understood as pollution and waste—a central cause of ecological crisis. \u003ci\u003ePlastics\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to address the multifaceted history of plastics from the perspective of artists, art historians, conservators, and environmental scientists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlastics\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that this material cannot easily be summarised as toxic or utopian, catastrophic or necessary. Instead, plastics define the modern world in both its possibility and failures. The book also reveals how artists have been a critically overlooked voice in debates about plastics, and how they have offered theories of the material through works that explore its potential and harmfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresenting a variety of perspectives on the world of plastics through the lens of art, artmaking, art history, and art conservation, \u003ci\u003ePlastics\u003c\/i\u003e shows why and how coming to terms with this material is critical to understanding not only modern and contemporary art and art conservation but also the crises of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47371424563436,"sku":"9780691238821","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691238821.avif?v=1773222135"},{"product_id":"arts-properties-by-david-joselit-9780691236049","title":"Art’s Properties","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity, while the qualities of the artist, nation, or period themselves became valuable properties. Joselit explores repatriation, explaining that this is not just a contemporary conflict between the Global South and Euro-American museums, noting that the Louvre, the first modern museum, was built on looted works and faced demands for restitution and repatriation early in its history. Joselit argues that the property values of white supremacy underlie the ideology of possessive individualism animating modern art, and he considers issues of identity and proprietary authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoselit redefines art's politics, arguing that these pertain not to an artwork's content or form but to the way it is \"captured,\" made to represent powerful interests - whether a nation, a government, or a celebrity artist collected by oligarchs. Artworks themselves are not political but occupy at once the here and now and an \"elsewhere\" - an alterity that can't ever be fully appropriated. The history of modern art, Joselit asserts, is the history of transforming this alterity into private property.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNarrating scenes from the emergence and capture of modern art - touching on a range of topics that include the Byzantine church, French copyright law, the 1900 Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois, the conceptual artist Adrian Piper, and the controversy over Dana Schutz's painting \u003ci\u003eOpen Casket\u003c\/i\u003e - Joselit argues that the meaning of art is its infinite capacity to generate experience over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt's Properties\u003c\/i\u003e offers a highly original argument that makes a far-reaching contribution to art historical scholarship. Simultaneously erudite and urgent, it is exhilarating to read, authored by a scholar at the very top of his game. An intellectual tour de force. \u003cstrong\u003eKobena Mercer, author of \u003ci\u003eTravel and See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt's Properties\u003c\/i\u003e links art, the history of capitalism, and decolonial criticism in startling and provocative ways. 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