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Abstract

For around the last 20 years there has been a significant growth in the number of books, academic conference streams and papers relating to ‘law and aesthetics’, a subset of Critical Legal Studies in which law is examined in relation to visual culture – in particular, in relation to (pre-twentieth century) art history, street art and legal iconography. Concurrently, since the artistic tendency termed ‘Conceptual Art’ emerged in the late 60s and early 70s, a number of notable contemporary artists have gone well beyond postmodern debates around artistic appropriation which have tended to dominate art historical debates around law. These artists have adopted and adapted legal methods, materials and ideas, producing a critique of law and and its societal and cultural after-images. Legal theorists have, to date, been largely unaware of the work of these artists. This essay seeks to redress that balance.

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