Defending national treasures
Subtitle: French art and heritage under Vichy
By: Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780804770187
Description: This work explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. It examines the preservation policy that the Vichy regime enacted in an assertion of sovereignty over French art museums, historic monuments, and archaeological sites.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural affairs under Vichy; title: Defending French style and beauty; title: Exodus; title: Museums fit for France; title: Saving historic sites; title: Archeology and the national revolution; title: Recycling French heroes : the destruction of bronze statues; title: Endangered local patrimony : bronze statues in Paris, Chambéry, and Nantes; title: Jewish art collections; title: Art as a negotiating tool; title: The Vichy legacy.