A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art
400A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art
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Overview
On the surface, this dispute is similar to many others, but digging deeper one finds a multilayered puzzle that embodies the competing narratives often at play in restitution cases: persecution, obfuscation, the murky environment of the art market after the war, and the basic tension between legal systems and who should bear the burden of resolving the competing claims. But digging deeper one finds a multilayered puzzle that embodies the competing narratives often at play in restitution cases: persecution, obfuscation, the murky environment of the art market after the war, and the basic tension between legal systems and who should bear the burden of resolving the competing claims.
There is no simple, unifying principle to these debates of stolen art. When approached by the heirs of victims, many current possessors look for the right answer. Some are indifferent. Some see a more complicated story in which their own interests and public service are more important than what happened eighty years ago. Disputes not yet known or filed will be guided by the stories and cases that have already happened. The tactics of and choices made by the parties to such disputes many times reveal the heartbreaking struggles that began in the past and continue to affect the descendants of the original owners today.
A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art represents those stories.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781634257336 |
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Publisher: | American Bar Association |
Publication date: | 08/01/2017 |
Pages: | 400 |
Sales rank: | 873,198 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part 1 Art and culture in Occupied Europe 1
1 From There to Here: Legislated Plunder in the Third Reich and the Allied Response 3
Part 2 The New Era 27
2 The Washington Conference and Its Ethical Parallels 29
3 Portrait of Wally and the Politics of Seizure 59
4 A New Door Opens: Maria Altmann and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 83
5 Landscape with Smokestacks and Early Trends 90
6 The Max Stern Estate 102
Part 3 Out of Time? 111
7 Bakalar and the Defense of Laches 113
8 California Legislative Amendments and the Legacy of Jacques Goudstikker 122
9 The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Oskar Reichel, and Provenance Research 146
10 Prescriptive Law in Louisiana 163
11 The Nathan Heirs, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Toledo Museum of Art 175
12 The Knives Come Out 187
Part 4 Back and Forth 201
13 Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 203
14 Leone Meyer and the University of Oklahoma 206
15 Legally Present: A jurisdictional Hook 224
16 The Pissarro of Lily Cassirer 240
17 Hungary and the Herzog Collection 255
18 Commercial Activity or Sovereign Act? 263
Part 5 The Worst System in the North but All the Rest 307
19 Progress or Broken Promises? Restitution Claims Procedures Among the Signatories to the Washington Conference Principles 309
20 A Tragic Fate: Conclusions and Possibilities 345
Acknowledgments 353
Appendix of and Credits for Selected Works at Issue 355
Endnotes 360
Glossary of Names, Terms, and Concepts 374
Bibliography 394
Index 397