Artistic Provenance Research

Artistic Provenance ResearchWhat can art and artists bring to researching the origins and biographies of objects? How do they shed new light on or even unsettle existing approaches to such questions? Proposing the new term artistic provenance research the contributors to this innovative book illuminate art's capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways. Presenting in depth examination of fascinating historical and contemporary examples, contributors to

What can art and artists bring to researching the origins and biographies of objects? How do they shed new light on - or even unsettle - existing approaches to such questions? Proposing the new term - artistic provenance research - the contributors to this innovative book illuminate art's capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways. Presenting in-depth examination of fascinating historical and contemporary examples, contributors to Artistic Provenance Research investigate knowledge-imagination dynamics, and questions of materiality, experimentation and speculation. They probe relationships between presences and absences, the aesthetic and the ontological, the scientific and the curatorial. The cases address a wide range of pressing issues of contemporary heritage research and practice, including those of colonialism and decolonization, ownership and art-markets, institutionalization, human remains, return and restitution. Through the exploration of selected artistic works in diverse media - including drama, performance, installation, photography and text - this book highlights the transformative potentials of artistic provenance research.