The collection published in 2017 provides in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of the co-constitution of art and sovereignty around the world, today and in the past.
It examines art in its global manifestations as property and national patrimony, as well as the claims that art makes on behalf of citizenship and political identities.
Also, it engages art as a crucial repository of meaning to those who hope to demonstrate the power of the sovereign state, as well as for those who hope to undermine that power.