Selected Bibliography and Further Reading

On provenance, forgery, and the classical system

Charney, Noah. The Art of Forgery. 2015. Feigenbaum, Gail, and Inge Reist, eds. Provenance: An Alternate History of Art. Getty Research Institute, 2012. Feliciano, Hector. The Lost Museum. 1997. Lewis, Ben. The Last Leonardo. 2019. Lopez, Jonathan. The Man Who Made Vermeers. 2008. Nicholas, Lynn H. The Rape of Europa. 1994. Salisbury, Laney, and Aly Sujo. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. 2009.

On the philosophy of authenticity

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." 1935/36. In Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn. 1968. Dutton, Denis. "Artistic Crimes." British Journal of Aesthetics 19, no. 4 (1979). Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Art. 1968.

On blockchain, digital art, and its preservation

Buterin, Vitalik. Ethereum whitepaper. 2013–14. Dash, Anil. "NFTs Weren't Supposed to End Like This." The Atlantic, April 2021. Depocas, Alain, Jon Ippolito, and Caitlin Jones, eds. Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation, 2003. Joselit, David. "NFTs, or The Readymade Reversed." October, no. 175 (Winter 2021): 3–4. Nakamoto, Satoshi. "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." 2008. Ryan, Tina Rivers. "Token Gesture." Artforum 59, no. 7 (May 2021). Whitaker, Amy. "Art and Blockchain: A Primer, History, and Taxonomy of Blockchain Use Cases in the Arts." Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts 8, no. 2 (2019): 21–46.