For most of history, an artwork (a painting, a sculpture) had a fixed location. You traveled to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa . Joselit argues that contemporary art has broken its physical chains. An artwork today is a hybrid: part physical object (the canvas, the marble) and part digital image (the JPEG, the Instagram post).
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