The Return Of Cultural Treasures

Download or read book The Return of Cultural Treasures written by Jeanette Greenfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of Greenfield's pioneering study about the legal, political and historical aspects of cultural restitution.

Download or read book Restitution written by Alexander Herman and published by Hot Topics in the Art World. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acquired a new urgency recently with the intensification of scrutiny of European museum collections acquired in the colonial period. Alexander Herman's fascinating and accessible book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the restitution ......

Download or read book The Return of Cultural Treasures written by Jeanette Greenfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of Greenfield's pioneering study about the legal, political and historical aspects of cultural restitution. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Download or read book The Return of Cultural Artefacts written by Alper Tașdelen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the instruments and approaches offered by public international law to resolve cultural heritage related disputes and facilitate the return of illicitly transferred objects to their countries of origin. In addition to assessing the instruments themselves, their origins, and their advantages and disadvantages, it also examines the roles and interests of the actors involved. Lastly, the book explores the interaction between hard and soft law approaches, the reasons for and importance of this interaction, as well as its consequences.

Download or read book America and the Return of Nazi Contraband written by Michael J. Kurtz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazi war on European culture produced the greatest dislocation of art, archives, and libraries in the history of the world. In the ruins of the Reich, Allied occupiers found millions of paintings, books, manuscripts, and pieces of sculpture, from the mediocre to the priceless, hidden in thousands of secret hideaways. This book tells the story of how the American Military Government in Germany, spearheaded by a few dozen dedicated Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFA&A) officers and enlisted men, coped with restoring Europe's cultural heritage.

Download or read book Keeping Their Marbles written by Tiffany Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York - to name but a few - can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. However, in the opinion of most people, many of these items are looted property and should be returned immediately. In 'Keeping Their Marbles', Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of how the West came to acquire these treasures. Originally published: 2016.

Download or read book Treasures in Trusted Hands written by Jos van Beurden and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has not been undone.