@book{2025:adler:artistic_p,
title = {Artistic Provenance Research},
year = {2025},
note = {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.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {transcript},
address = {Bielefeld},
series = {Cultural Heritage Studies},
volume = {5},
editor = {Adler, Tal and Macdonald, Sharon}
}