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Title: Models of Integrity: Art & Law in Post-Sixties America
Author: KEE JOAN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/01/2019
Imprint: CALIFORNIA UNI PRESS
Price: $107.95
Publishing status: Active
This strikingly original book analyzes interactions between contemporary art and American law in a rich and powerful way. One might think these cultural forms had nothing to say to each other, but Joan Kee sits the reader down in a new place of her own making. She shows that these forms and their relationship are very different from what one might have thoughtthey’re fascinating, often in tension, sometimes listening to each other, at once enemies and friends. A real achievement!James Boyd White, L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law Emeritus, University of MichiganThis book is a very important piece of scholarship that ties together two very disparate fields: art history and legal analysis. Joan Kee, a top-flight lawyer and an art historian, makes a very powerful contribution to the existing field, which has been less covered with regard to post-sixties art. Not only does she do an excellent job of informing readers about existing law and how it governs contemporary art, but she also adds quite a bit of context and argument to current debates in a fresh and exciting manner.Sonia Katyal, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, BerkeleyImportant, meticulously researched, and beautifully written, Models of Integrity is an illuminating analysis of the entanglements between U.S. law and contemporary art practices from the 1960s to the present. In a thorough and lucid voice, Joan Kee guides the readerespecially the reader reticent to engage with the question of the lawthrough the stories of key figures in contemporary art history in order to illustrate law and art’s mutual implication. This book brings the submerged connections between art and law to the surface, asking us in turn to reimagine our understanding of both.Joshua Chambers-Letson, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, Northwestern University
ISBN: 9780520299382
Pages: 320