Afterlives : recovering the lost stories of looted art
Afterlives
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
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| Omfang | 269 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "It is estimated that by the end of World War II, almost a million objects and millions of books were seized from their owners by Nazi forces; many were destroyed. The artworks and cultural artifacts that survived have traumatic, layered histories. This book traces the biographies of these objects, their rescue in the aftermath of the war, and their afterlives in museums and private collections and in our cultural understanding. In examining how this history affects the way we view the objects, scholars discuss the moral and aesthetic implications of maintaining the association between the works and their place within the brutality of the Holocaust-or, conversely, the implications of ignoring this history. Afterlives offers a thought-provoking investigation of the unique ability of art and artifacts to bear witness to historical events. With rarely seen archival photographs and with contributions by contemporary artists, this catalogue illuminates the study of a difficult and still-urgent subject, with many parallels to today's crises of art in war"--
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| ISBN | 9780300250701
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