Who owns the past?
Subtitle: cultural policy, cultural property, and the law
By: Kate Fitz Gibbon, editor.
Contributors: Fitz Gibbon, Kate.; American Council for Cultural Policy
Series: Rutgers series on the public life of the arts
Publisher: Rutgers University Press : in association with The American Council for Cultural Policy
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780813536873
Subjects: Collectors and collecting -- History.; Cultural property -- Protection -- International cooperation.; Intellectual property.; Material culture.; Museums -- Acquisitions.; Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.; Art and state.; Culture and law.; Cultural policy.
Description: "Who Owns the Past? challenges all who care about the arts to work together toward policies that consider traditional American interests in securing cultural resources and respect international concerns over loss of heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The laws; title: Collecting and the trade; title: Art in peril; title: The universal museum.