After Art David Joselit Pdf File

After Art: David Joselit PDF

Strengths of Joselit’s approach

Key concepts

From Object to Image-Object

For most of history, an artwork (a painting, a sculpture) had a fixed location. You traveled to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa. Joselit argues that contemporary art has broken its physical chains. An artwork today is a hybrid: part physical object (the canvas, the marble) and part digital image (the JPEG, the Instagram post). after art david joselit pdf