🎨 Is Art an Object or a Currency? Insights from David Joselit’s After Art
doesn't refer to the end of creative practice, but to the end of art as a culturally privileged, self-contained object. In the digital age, images behave like currency; their power is not in their "aura" or unique origin, but in their ability to be reformatted, disseminated, and reaggregated. Project MUSE Epistemology of Search after art david joselit pdf
In this short but dense book (often shared as a PDF in seminars), Joselit argues that we have moved beyond the image as a static object. Instead, art’s primary function today is . He asks: What happens to art when it is designed to be shared, appropriated, and reformatted across screens? 🎨 Is Art an Object or a Currency