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A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s,
sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For
decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless
works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western
museums. In Africa's Struggle for Its Art, Benedicte Savoy brings
to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of
the world's foremost experts on restitution and cultural heritage,
Savoy investigates extensive, previously unpublished sources to
reveal that the roots of the struggle extend much further back than
prominent recent debates indicate, and that these efforts were
covered up by myriad opponents. Shortly after 1960, when eighteen
former colonies in Africa gained independence, a movement to pursue
repatriation was spearheaded by African intellectual and political
classes. Savoy looks at pivotal events, including the watershed
speech delivered at the UN General Assembly by Zaire's president,
Mobutu Sese Seko, which started the debate regarding restitution of
colonial-era assets and resulted in the first UN resolution on the
subject. She examines how German museums tried to withhold
information about their inventory and how the British Parliament
failed to pass a proposed amendment to the British Museum Act,
which protected the country's collections. Savoy concludes in the
mid-1980s, when African nations enacted the first laws focusing on
the protection of their cultural heritage. Making the case for why
restitution is essential to any future relationship between African
countries and the West, Africa's Struggle for Its Art will shape
conversations around these crucial issues for years to come.
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Toroni - Tupynamba (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R8,527
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Discovery Miles 73 740
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Tur - Valldosera (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R8,527
R7,374
Discovery Miles 73 740
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Lander (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R8,501
R7,508
Discovery Miles 75 080
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Lander (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R7,350
R6,357
Discovery Miles 63 570
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Not only Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering utilized the occupation
of France during the Second World War to procure artworks for their
collections - German museums also made acquisitions at the time.
The advantageous foreign exchange rate and the large range of
artworks, for instance, from seized Jewish property, afforded
favorable opportunities. French museums like the Louvre also
expanded their holdings during this time. Many purchases by German
museums were restituted to France in the postwar period, while some
have remained in the collections until today and are first now
becoming a focus of research. The essays in the volume from German
and French perspectives analyze the similarities and differences in
the activities of museums on the French art market during the
occupation for the first time. Adolf Hitler et Hermann Goering ne
sont pas les seuls a avoir profite de l'Occupation de la France par
l'Allemagne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour acquerir des
oeuvres d'art pour leurs collections - les musees allemands y ont
egalement fait des acquisitions. Le taux de change avantageux et
l'offre importante d'oeuvres d'art provenant par exemple de
proprietes juives spoliees ont offert des opportunites favorables.
Les musees francais, comme le Louvre, ont egalement elargi leurs
collections a cette epoque. De nombreuses acquisitions de musees
allemands ont ete restituees a la France dans l'apres-guerre, mais
certaines sont restees dans les collections jusqu'a ce jour et
n'ont attire l'attention des chercheurs que recemment. Les
contributions de ce volume analysent pour la premiere fois, des
points de vue francais et allemand, les points communs et les
differences entre les activites des musees sur le marche de l'art
francais pendant l'Occupation.
The ongoing "Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon is the most extensive,
up-to-date and authoritative art history reference work on artists.
Each volume profiles approximately 7,000 artists from all time
periods and across the globe.
From 1800 onward young artists from the German-speaking world
flocked to the Paris studios of Jacques-Louis David, Paul Delaroche
and Thomas Couture. The encyclopedia's individual articles make
available previously unknown data and facts and provide new
insights into the importance of Paris as place of artist's
training, the career of several generations of painters and the
transnational production of art in the 19th century.
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Lander (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meiner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R8,384
R7,241
Discovery Miles 72 410
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The ongoing "Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon is the most extensive,
up-to-date and authoritative art history reference work on artists.
Each volume profiles approximately 7,000 artists from all time
periods and across the globe.
The third supplementary volume (starting withBeranek) will contain
approx. 1,400 additional biographies of artists. More than 100
sources, mostly regional artist encyclopedias, and current
publications were used, furthermore information from the AKL
editorial archive itself. Especially for the contemporary artists
intensive online research was accomplished.
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Lander (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R7,669
R5,018
Discovery Miles 50 180
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Franz Theodor Kugler (1808 1858) gehort unbestritten zu den ersten
namhaften deutschen Kunsthistorikern. Ihm verdankt man insbesondere
die Einbettung der Kunstgeschichte als asthetische
Auseinandersetzung mit den uberlieferten Kunstwerken in die
allgemeine Geschichte. 1837 veroffentlichte er sein Handbuch der
Geschichte der Malerei von Konstantin dem Grossen bis auf die
neuere Zeit. Bald darauf folgte ein zweites bahnbrechendes Werk,
das Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte (1842). In weiteren Schriften
legte Kugler den Akzent auf die Kunstgeschichte Berlins und der
Umgebung und versuchte zugleich, die Kunstwissenschaft mit
geographischen Betrachtungen zu verknupfen. Die Geschichte der
Baukunst, an der Jakob Burckhardt und Wilhelm Lubke mitwirkten,
zeugt von seiner Neigung zu Gesamtdarstellungen. Kugler war auch
als Kunstreferent des preussischen Kulturministeriums tatig und
konnte seine Ansichten in die Praxis der Kunstverwaltung umsetzen.
Sein weitverzweigtes Netz von Bekannten und Freunden unter den
Berliner Schriftstellern der Zeit, von Emanuel Geibel und Paul
Heyse bis zum jungen Theodor Fontane, illustriert eine
paradigmatische Verbindung von Literatur- und Kunstbetrachtung, die
von der Zusammenarbeit mit Adolph Menzel an der Geschichte
Friedrichs des Grossen (1840) oder aber von seinen eigenen
Gedichten weiter dokumentiert wird. Der vorliegende Band widmet
sich erstmals ausfuhrlich der Figur Kuglers, die weitgehend in
Vergessenheit geraten ist, obwohl sie fur das Verstandnis der
Kunstwissenschaft, der Berliner Salonkultur und der allgemeinen
deutschen Kulturgeschichte von den 1830er bis zu den 1850er Jahren
unerlassliche Schlussel liefert."
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