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Art and Money (Hardcover, New)
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Art and Money (Hardcover, New)
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Marc Shell argues that Christian ideology, ambivalent about both
art and money, has conflated religion, art, and coinage. If
engraving or inscription assigns value, then the first widely
produced artistic "reproductions" were coins, acting as religious
icons with a meaning at once spiritual and material. In the first
half of the book, Shell establishes an ongoing interaction between
symbolization in currency and aesthetic production. He covers a
range of issues from the iconoclast controversies to nuances of
Christian doctrine on the materiality of money and the significance
of liturgical objects, from the Eucharist wafer to the Holy Grail
to the use of precious metals in Christian icons. Shell then
focuses on money in the United States. He takes up controversies
over the gold standard, the development of paper currency in
nineteenth-century America, and the activities of minimalist,
conceptualist, and investment artists in the 1960s that led to
dematerialization of art and money in electronic exchange. Art
& Money provides striking insight into current matters of art
collection, counterfeiting, and problems of attribution, into the
general relation between word and image, and into controversies
over taxation and crises or scandals in the financial world.
Shell's historical range is immense, and he fills this study with
amusing anecdotes and insights ranging from the relic of the Holy
Foreskin to the state's arrest of J. S. G. Boggs, a conceptual
artist who draws money.
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