Artist, authorship & legacy : a reader - McClean, Daniel (London : Ridinghouse, 2018)
Artistic autohorship is fundamental to how we both interpret and value artworks. The figure of the solitary, creative genius underpins the symbolic ant monetary values we ascribe to artworks: yt artistic authorship, like ownership, is often contested and unstable. This interdiciplinary collection of essays, written from legal, art historical, and art market perspectives, critically examines the construction and iteration of the artist-author both during the lifetime of the artist and beyond - when artistic authorship is stewarded by others, including artists' estates, foundations, and museums. Drawing on current cases and legal disputes, this important anthology addresses enduring issues that heve become central to the contemporary art world, such as the collision between artists' rights of owners of artworks, The problem of authenticatiion and who has the final authority tot determine autenticity, and the role of artists' estates as legacy guardians.
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