An Art Historian Has A Solution for the Debates Over Representation and Identity

In his new book Art’s Properties, art historian David Joselit takes on one of the defining debates of our time: what does it mean to say that an artwork belongs to a particular place or a culture? Questions of identity, representation, and appropriation have provoked some painful conversations across the nation, and within the art world, yet we are far from concrete solutions. But Joselit, a professor of art, film, and visual studies at Harvard, believes he might have struck on a way to re