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Below is a list of books and journals that the Center for Art Law compiles in our quest to keep track of the art law publications and relevant scholarship.
If you are working on a new title, or your book is already out, and you would like to have it included in the Repository, please send us information about it (Title, Author/Editor(s), Date of Publication; ISBN, short summary, link to your publisher/distributor).
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Schwarzbuch Bührle Raubkunst für das Kunsthaus Zürich?
“With the planned acquisition of Emil G. Bührle’s art collection by the Kunsthaus Zürich, the name of Nazi Germany’s arms supplier will be prominently displayed on a major public cultural institution. But where did Bührle’s paintings come from? This book traces the provenance of many important artworks, including works by Manet, Monet, van Gogh, and Cézanne, and raises questions about looted art and art stolen during wartime.”
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Restoring the Law of Restitution of Cultural Property: Complex Colonial Histories
“This groundbreaking book covers the restoration of the law of restitution of cultural property, matching the time, space, and depth dimensions of the law with the time, space, and ontology of events that violated persons and desecrated their heritage in the colonial era.
Using the contested ownership of the Parthenon Sculptures and the Zhanggong Zushi mummy encased in a Buddha statue as the main points of orientation, the book shows how the law of restitution could be ‘defragmented’ and ‘restored’ in respect of claims for the return of colonial-era and Indigenous cultural property disputes. The study argues that the secondary legal norms and common arguments of Private International Law can unlock governance functions and strategies that counter the effects of the narrow definition of the ‘sacred’ and the consistent refusal to consider an alternative chronosophy in restitution claims. When called upon to resist the detrimental effects of the mimetic dynamic in complex colonial contexts, the law stands to benefit from a legal-theoretical perspective that views law in relation to ethics and considers Private International Law, a model of ethics.
The book will be of interest to researchers in the field of cultural property law, heritage studies, Indigenous law, provenance, and applied ethics.”
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Wem gehört Picassos “”Madame Soler””?
“Rarely has a German state struggled so much with handling a case of looted art as the Free State of Bavaria did with the Madame Soler painting. The banker and art collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had been forced to part with this painting and other Picasso works in the early days of the Nazi regime. Firstly, the Free State refuses to restitute the painting, which it acquired for the Bavarian State Painting Collections in 1964 under mysterious circumstances, to the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy heirs. Secondly, and this is now the real scandal, it also refuses to allow the case to be reviewed by the Advisory Commission (Limbach Commission), which has existed since 2003 and is meant to mediate in conflict cases.”
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The Happy Thieves
“A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.”
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Livres pillés, lectures surveillées: Les bibliothèques françaises sous l’Occupation
“Poulain’s book deals with the life of public libraries during the war, and also with the looting of millions of books in France in public and private libraries during WW2.”
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Books Reviews
Book Review: “Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of…
Book Review: “All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art” (2024)
Book Review: Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger (2012) by Ken Perenyi
Book Review: “Art & Crime” (2022) by Stefan Koldenhoff & Tobias Timm, eng. ed.
Book Review: “Museum Administration: Law and Practice” by Walter Lehmann (2022)
Book Review: “Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market,” Sharon Hecker and Peter J. Karol, eds.…
Book Review: The Art Collecting Legal Handbook, Bruno W. Boesch And Massimo Sterpi, eds. (3rd ed.,…
Book Review: “Lost Art: The Art Loss Register Casebook Vol I” (2021) by Anja Shortland
Book Review: “The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why…
Art Law Journals
Book Review: “Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime” (2019) by Penelope Jackson
Book Review: “A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law” (2018)
Book Review: “Hitler’s Last Hostages” (2019)
Book Review: “Art and Modern Copyright” (2018)
Book Review: “Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime” (2019)
Book Review: “Art Law and the Business of Art” (2019)
Book Review: “Artist, Authorship & Legacy: A Reader” (2018)
Book Review: “The Bouvier Affair: A True Story” (2019)
Book Review: Joan Kee, “Models of Integrity” (2019)
Book Review: “A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle over Nazi-Looted Art”(2017)
Book Review: “Art Law: A Concise Guide for Artists, Curators, and Art Educators”(2016)
Book Review: “Art and Business: Transactions in Art & Cultural Property” (2016)
Book Review: “Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present” (2016)
Book Review: “Fair and just solutions?” (2015)
Book Review: “Visual Arts and the Law: A Handbook for Professionals” (2013)
Book Review: Elizabeth T. Russell’s “Arts Law Conversations”
All Things Come in Threes: Hope reviews Three Recent Publications on Art Forgery
Pitching an idea to e-Textbook Publishers: Trademarks through NY Restaurants
Art Theft – A Sexy Crime?
