A tragic fate
Subtitle: law and ethics in the battle over Nazi-looted art
By: Nicholas M. O'Donnell
Publisher: Ankerwycke
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781634257336
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Jewish property; Repatriation; Confiscations and contributions; Cultural property; National socialism and art; Art thefts; Claims; Destruction and pillage; Restitution; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Art and culture in occupied Europe; title: From there to here : legislated plunder in the Third Reich and the Allied response; title: Part two. The new era; title: The Washington Conference and its ethical parallels; title: Portrait of Wally and the politics of seizure; title: A new door opens : Maria Altmann and the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer; title: Landscape with smokestacks and early trends; title: The Max Stern estate; title: Part three. Out of time?; title: Bakalar and the defense of laches; title: California legislative amendments and the legacy of Jacques Goudstikker; title: The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Oskar Reichel, and provenance research; title: Prescriptive law in Louisiana; title: The Nathan heirs, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Toledo Museum of Art; title: The knives come out; title: Part four. Back and forth; title: Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; title: Léone Meyer and the University of Oklahoma; title: Legally present : a jurisdictional hook; title: The Pissarro of Lily Cassirer; title: Hungary and the Herzog Collection; title: Commercial activity or sovereign act?; title: Part five. The worst system in the world but all the rest; title: Progress or broken promises? : restitution claims procedures among the signatories to the Washington Conference principles; title: A tragic fate : conclusions and possibilities; title: Glossary of names, terms and concepts.