Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market : The Afterlife of Art (Paperback)

Introduction  Part One: Stage Setting  1. Posthumous Casts in the Twentieth Century: An Overview of the Wide Range of Situations  2. The Challenges of Posthumous Moral Rights  3. Posthumous Editions: Does the Market Value the Presence of the Artist?  Part Two: Intentions and (Mis)understandings  4. Behind the Scenes: Legitimation and Marketing Strategies of Brancusi’s Posthumous Bronze Casts  5. Dead-Hand Guidance: A Preferable Testamentary Approach for Artists  6. Collaborations in Absentia: An Artist’s/Founder’s View of the Posthumous Cast  Part Three: Museum Stewardship  7. Condition Issues  8. The Cost of Decommissioning  9. Patterns on Maya’s Veil: The Distinction Between ‘Lifetime’ and ‘Posthumous’ Casts as Fetish  Part Four: Unruly Afterlives  10. Forged of Paper: The Busy Afterlives of Xuande Incense Burners  11. Unique Forms & Different Versions: Cataloging Boccioni’s Sculptures  12. Medardo Rosso’s The Emperor Vitellius: An Artist’s Posthumous Copy (of a Copy) of an (Unknown) Original  13. AI, IP, and Artistic Legacies  14. An Economic Strategy to Exploit the Rent of Notoriety in an Emblematic Case Study: Francois Pompon  Part Five: Continuity and Community  15. Reproductions of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Vatican Pieta as Experiential Mediators  16. Lineages and the Posthumous Lives of Chinese Paintings  17. Indigeneity and the Posthumous Condition  Epilogue. Personal Reflections on NFTs & the Death of Art