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Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market: The Afterlife of Art book cover

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Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market The Afterlife of Art

Edited By Sharon Hecker, Peter J. Karol Copyright 2022
252 Pages 10 Color & 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 10 Color & 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 10 Color & 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book takes an interdisciplinary, transnational and cross-cultural approach to reflect on, critically examine and challenge the surprisingly robust practice of making art after death in an artist's name, through the lenses of scholars from the fields of art history, economics and law, as well as practicing artists. Works of art conceived as multiples, such as sculptures, etchings, prints,... Read more

Introduction

Sharon Hecker and Peter J. Karol

Part One: Stage Setting

1. Posthumous Casts in the Twentieth Century: An Overview of the Wide Range of Situations

Elisabeth Lebon and Eve Turbat, Translated by Cole Swensen

2. The Challenges of Posthumous Moral Rights

Guy A. Rub

3. Posthumous Editions: Does the Market Value the Presence of the Artist?

Sharon Chrust and Amy R. Jebrine

Part Two: Intentions and (Mis)understandings

4. Behind the Scenes: Legitimation and Marketing Strategies of Brancusi’s Posthumous Bronze Casts

Alexandra Parigoris

5. Dead-Hand Guidance: A Preferable Testamentary Approach for Artists

Eva E. Subotnik

6. Collaborations in Absentia: An Artist’s/Founder’s View of the Posthumous Cast

Andrew Lacey

Part Three: Museum Stewardship

7. Condition Issues

Martha Buskirk

8. The Cost of Decommissioning

Peter J. Karol

9. Patterns on Maya’s Veil: The Distinction Between ‘Lifetime’ and ‘Posthumous’ Casts as Fetish

Arie Hartog, Translated by Deborah Shannon

Part Four: Unruly Afterlives

10. Forged of Paper: The Busy Afterlives of Xuande Incense Burners

Bruce Rusk

11. Unique Forms & Different Versions: Cataloging Boccioni’s Sculptures

Rosalind McKever

12. Medardo Rosso’s The Emperor Vitellius: An Artist’s Posthumous Copy (of a Copy) of an (Unknown) Original

Sharon Hecker

13. AI, IP, and Artistic Legacies

Andrew Gilden and Taylor Hurwitz

14. An Economic Strategy to Exploit the Rent of Notoriety in an Emblematic Case Study: François Pompon

Nathalie Moureau and Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux

Part Five: Continuity and Community

15. Reproductions of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Vatican Pietà as Experiential Mediators

Lisa M. Rafanelli

16. Lineages and the Posthumous Lives of Chinese Paintings

Michael J. Hatch

17. Indigeneity and the Posthumous Condition

Lara M. Evans and Mique’l Dangeli

Epilogue. Personal Reflections on NFTs & the Death of Art

Brian Frye

Biography

Sharon Hecker is an independent art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Italian sculpture.

Peter J. Karol is Professor of Law at New England Law | Boston, where he is also Director of the school’s Intellectual Property Law Certificate Program.

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