**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

How do they shed new light on – or even unsettle – existing approaches to such questions? What can art and artists bring to researching the origins and biographies of objects? Proposing the new term – artistic provenance research – the contributors to this innovative book illuminate art’s capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways. Presenting in-depth examination of fascinating historical and contemporary examples, contributors to Artistic Provenance Research investigate knowledge-imagination dynamics, and questions of materiality, experimentation and speculation.