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Benedicte Savoy
"First published in German under the title Afrikas Kampf um seine Kunst Geschichte einer postkolonialen Niederlage by Baenaedicte Savoy. Copyright A Verlag C.H.Beck oHG, Meunchen 2021"--Copyright page.
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Wer erinnert sich heute noch an die zahlreichen Dokumentarfilme, die zwischen 1934 und 1939 in den Berliner Museen, ihren Depots und Restaurierungswerkstatten gedreht und uberall in Europa, von Venedig uber…
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Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. This volume focuses on the museum as a product…
A major new history of how, between 1965 and 1985, African nations sought the restitution of works of art stolen during the colonial period, written by the most important and…
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A timely and compelling contribution to the debate around repatriation of looted African artefacts, illustrated and contributed to by African artists and writers
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As more parts of the world outside Europe became accessible =- and in the wake of social and technological developments in the 18th century - a growing number of exotic…
Benedicte Savoy,Felicity Bodenstein,Merten Lagatz
Discussions about historical appropriation practices for cultural assets in the context of their associated relocation are highly topical and widely reflected across different academic disciplines. Contributions to this volume address…
Papers from a conference held December 2008 in Berlin, Germany.
Das Allgemeine Kunstlerlexikon (AKL) bietet in jedem Band rund 1.000 Biographien bildender Kunstler aus aller Welt und allen Zeiten, von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Enthalten sind nicht nur Maler…
Alexander von Humboldt lived in Paris for a quarter century, wrote a major portion of his oeuvre there, and played a huge part in shaping German-French relations. This volume assembles…
Das Allgemeine Kunstlerlexikon (AKL) ist Nachfolger der traditionsreichen kunsthistorischen Standardwerke Thieme-Becker und Vollmer und erscheint seit 1991. Selbst langst ein Standardwerk, beschrankt es sich bewusst nicht auf die grossen Meister…
Volume76 contains, inter alia, entries on Jorg Immendorf (by Tayfun Belgin), Robert Indiana (Allison Unruh), Christoph Ingenhofen (Jan Lubitz), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (Uwe Fleckner), George Inness (Michael Quick), Jean…
Band 77 enthalt u.a. Artikel zu Alfredo Jaar (von Sangestan Shabab), Jacopo della Quercia (Helen Geddes), Wenzel Jamnitzer (Sven Hauschke), Marcel Janco (Harry Seiwert), Horst Janssen (Jutta Moster-Hoos), Alexej Jawlensky…
Das Allgemeine Kunstlerlexikon (AKL) bietet in jedem Band rund 1.000 Kunstlerbiografien bildender Kunstler aus aller Welt. Enthalten sind nicht nur Maler, Bildhauer oder Architekten, sondern auch Designer, Fotografen, Video- und…
Band 82 enthalt u.a. Artikel zu Barbara Kruger, Alfred Kubin, Franti ek Kupka, Kisho Kurokawa, David LaChapelle, Rene Lalique, Wifredo Lam undGeorges de La Tour.
Isabelle Le Chermont,Patrick Golenia,Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier
Der Berliner Kunsthandler und Auktionator Paul Graupe spielte im ‘Dritten Reich’ eine nur schwer zu fassende Rolle zwischen den Extremen. Nach 1933 verausserte er in grossem Umfang judischen Kunstbesitz und…
