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Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

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What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as a fictional currency in a global futures market that has nothing to do with the works themselves? Can we distinguish between creativity and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives?

Artist / Author Hito Steyerl
Publisher Verso
ISBN 978-1786632432
Reference P3724
Date 2017
Type Publication

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