"This book takes an interdisciplinary, transnational and cross-cultural approach to reflect on, critically examine, and challenge the surprisingly robust practice of making art after death in an artist's name, through the lenses of scholars from the fields of art history, economics and law, as well as practicing artists. Works of art conceived as multiples, such as sculptures, etchings, prints, photographs and conceptual art, can be - and often are - remade from original models and plans long after the artist has passed. Recent sales have suggested a growing market embrace of posthumous works, contemporaneous with questioning on the part of art history. Legal norms seem unready for this surge in posthumous production and are beset by conflict across jurisdictions. Non-Western approaches to posthumous art, from Chinese emulations of non-living artists to Native American performances, take into account rituals of generational passage and emotional aspects foreign to Western ideas. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, the art market, art law, art management, museum studies, and economics"-- Provided by publisher.
List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Sharon Hecker and Peter J. Karol -- Part one : Stage setting -- 1. Posthumous casts in the twentieth century : an overview of the wide range of situations / Élisabeth Lebon and Ève Turbat, translated by Cole Swensen -- 2. The challenges of posthumous moral rights / Guy A. Rub -- 3. Posthumous editions : does the market value the presence of the artist? / Sharon Chrust and Amy R. Jebrine -- Part two : Intentions and (mis)understandings -- 4. Behind the scenes : legitimation and marketing strategies of Brancusi's posthumous bronze casts / Alexandra Parigoris -- 5. Dead-hand guidance : a preferable testamentary approach for artists / Eva E. Subotnik -- 6. Collaborations in absentia : an artist's/founder's view of the posthumous cast / Andrew Lacey -- Part three : Museum stewardship -- 7. Condition issues / Martha Buskirk -- 8. The cost of decommissioning / Peter J. Karol -- 9. Patterns on Maya's veil : the distinction between "lifetime" and "posthumous" casts as fetish / Arie Hartog, translated from German by Deborah Shannon -- Part four : Unruly afterlives -- 10. Forged of paper : the busy afterlives of Xuande incense burners / Bruce Rusk -- 11. Unique forms & different versions : cataloging Boccioni's sculptures / Rosalind McKever -- 12. Medardo Ross's The Emperor Vitellius : an artist's posthumous copy (of a copy) of an (unknown) original / Sharon Hecker -- 13. AI, IP, and artistic legacies / Andrew Gilden and Taylor Hurwitz -- 14. An economic strategy to exploit the rent of notoriety in an emblematic case study : François Pompon / Nathalie Moureau and Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux -- Part five : Continuity and community -- 15. Reproductions of Michelangelo Buonarroti's Vatican Pietà as experiential mediators / Lisa M. Rafanelli -- 16. Lineages and the posthumous lives of Chinese paintings / Michael J. Hatch -- 17. Indigeneity and the posthumous condition / Lara M. Evans and Mique'l Dangeli -- Epilogue : Personal reflections on NFTs & the death of art / Brian L. Frye -- Index.