David Joselit’s art-historical work has approached the history and theory of image circulation in the 20th and 21st centuries from a variety of perspectives, spanning Marcel Duchamp’s strategy of the readymade, in which commodities are reframed as artworks, to the mid-20th ecology of television, video art, and media activism, and the current conditions of contemporary art under dual pressures of globalization and digitization.
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