PROVOKING THE FREEPORT MAGIC: ART ASSEMBLAGE IN LATE CAPITALISM by Jessica Backsell
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130 x 190mm, 108 pages Black white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025 What is magic? And what can it do? In this book, Jessica Backsell interrogates the magic of the art world and culture’s stubborn habit of foregrounding art as representative of an alternative value system. Through the empirical example of the freeport—luxury warehouses where valuable art is stored for preservation and taxation purposes—Backsell explores the implications of understanding the art world through contingent entanglements and practices. Examining the contested site of the freeport, Backsell addresses the dic
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