A tragic fate : law and ethics in the battle over Nazi-looted art / / Nicholas M. O'Donnell

• Autore: O'Donnell Nicholas M.
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, Illinois : , : American Bar Association, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 pages)
• Disciplina: 940.53/18144
• Soggetto topico: Art thefts; Art thefts - Europe - History - 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part one. Art and culture in occupied Europe -- From there to here : legislated plunder in the Third Reich and the Allied response -- Part two. The new era -- The Washington Conference and its ethical parallels -- Portrait of Wally and the politics of seizure -- A new door opens : Maria Altmann and the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer -- Landscape with smokestacks and early trends -- The Max Stern estate -- Part three. Out of time? -- Bakalar and the defense of laches -- California legislative amendments and the legacy of Jacques Goudstikker -- The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Oskar Reichel, and provenance research -- Prescriptive law in Louisiana -- The Nathan heirs, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Toledo Museum of Art -- The knives come out -- Part four. Back and forth -- Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Lâeone Meyer and the University of Oklahoma -- Legally present : a jurisdictional hook -- The Pissarro of Lily Cassirer -- Hungary and the Herzog Collection -- Commercial activity or sovereign act? -- Part five. The worst system in the world but all the rest -- Progress or broken promises? : restitution claims procedures among the signatories to the Washington Conference principles -- A tragic fate : conclusions and possibilities.
• Titolo autorizzato: A tragic fate
• ISBN: 1-63425-734-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794998803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II