The Politics of Collecting

Race and the Aestheticization of Property

Eunsong Kim (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2624-2 (ISBN)

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In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good taste—are responsible for popular ideas of formal innovation and artistic genius. In doing so, she details how Marcel Duchamp’s canonization has more to do with his patron’s donations to museums than it does the quality of Duchamp’s work, and she uncovers the racialized and financialized logic behind the Archive of New Poetry’s collecting practices. Ranging from the conception of philanthropy devised by the robber barons of the late nineteenth century to ongoing digitization projects, Kim provides a new history of contemporary art that accounts for the complicated entanglement of race, capital, and labor behind storied art institutions and artists. Drawing on history, theory, and economics, Kim challenges received notions of artistic success and talent and calls for a new vision of art beyond the cultural institution.

Eunsong Kim is Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University.

Prelude. On Motivations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Personal Collection and the Museum Form: Racial Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Legacies of the Homestead Strike of 1892 33
2. Scientific Management and Conceptual Art: The Invention of the Artist Manager 62
3. Whiteness as Property and Found Object Art: Collecting and Canonizing Marcel Duchamp 92
4. Whiteness and the New: Neoliberalism and the Building of the Archive for New Poetry 118
5. Colonially Bound, Digitally Free: On the Distance between Object and Image 146
6. Neoliberal Aesthetics: The Legacies of the White Modernism 178
Coda. On Inoperation and Glory 208
Notes 215
Bibliography 273
Index 295

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	9 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4780-2624-3 / 1478026243
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2624-2 / 9781478026242
Zustand	Neuware