Joan Kee, Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America

DOI10.3366/elr.2022.0774
Author
Pages285-286
Date01 May 2022
Published date01 May 2022

Joan Kee’s Models of Integrity is a fascinating book that makes a valuable contribution to interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Focusing on the United States and the period between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s, the book considers some of the ways that expanding forms of legal regulation conditioned and complicated the relationships between art, audience, and artist. At the same time, the book reflects on the way that artistic works challenged developments in the legal and political landscape, such as the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, and the communities of (purported) consensus on which laws tend to rely. In addition to these two ambitions, the book seeks to highlight the manifold ways that law depends on its ability to recognise, and also generate, particular kinds of experiences and reactions. Even though these phenomena are not always easy to capture in the textual, formalistic, sources that lawyers typically use, they are nevertheless core to the operation of many legal doctrines and processes.

Kee pursues the aims of her book across six chapters, each of which focuses on a particular artistic work or works. All of the chapters contain rich insights...

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