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2023.
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English
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"Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe...
4) The Central Collecting Point in Munich: a new beginning for the restitution and protection of art
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The Getty Research Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"This book documents the story of the Allies' Central Collecting Point (CCP) set up in the former Nazi Party headquarters at Königsplatz in Munich, where confiscated works of art were transported to be identified and sorted out for restitution in the years from 1945 to 1949"--Provided by publisher.
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New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"'A Mortuary of Books' explores Jewish culture after the World War II."--
In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis' systematic acts...
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Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from...
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Publisher
American Bar Association
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last 20 years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War II, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and the hteir heirs against museums, foreign nations, and even their own family members. These stories are enduring because they speak to one of the core tragedies of the Nazi era: how...
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Cincinnati Art Museum
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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This exhibition catalogue focuses on the transfer of 202 paintings from the Berlin State Museums-including many of the greatest 15th to 18th-century works in the Gemäldegalerie-to the United States in the aftermath of World War II. In November 1945, the U.S. military government in Germany ordered that "at least 200 German works of art of greatest importance" be sent to Washington for safekeeping. After two years in storage, they were exhibited at...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher
Cassell
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been...
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