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Belonging and Betrayal - How Jews Made the Art World Modern (Hardcover): Charles Dellheim Belonging and Betrayal - How Jews Made the Art World Modern (Hardcover)
Charles Dellheim
R1,244 R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Save R204 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause celebre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place - and what this reveals about Jews, art, and modernity. This book tells the epic story of the fortunes and misfortunes of a small number of eminent art dealers and collectors who, against the odds, played a pivotal role in the migration of works of art from Europe to the United States and in the triumph of modern art. Beautifully written and compellingly told, this story takes place on both sides of the Atlantic from the late nineteenth century to the present. It is set against the backdrop of critical transformations, among them the gradual opening of European high culture, the ambiguities of Jewish acculturation, the massive sell-off of aristocratic family art collections, the emergence of different schools of modern art, the cultural impact of World War I, and the Nazi war against the Jews.

The Face of the Past - The Preservation of the Medieval Inheritance in Victorian England (Paperback, Revised): Charles Dellheim The Face of the Past - The Preservation of the Medieval Inheritance in Victorian England (Paperback, Revised)
Charles Dellheim
R1,183 Discovery Miles 11 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is a striking paradox of nineteenth-century England that as it became the first industrial nation, it became increasingly fascinated by its preindustrial past and, in particular, its medieval inheritance. The preservation of that inheritance was a major cultural achievement of Victorian England, one that resonates in contemporary historic preservationist movements still so common throughout England. This is a study not of an elite of artists and thinkers but of broad cultural activities, such as local archaeology and tourism, historic preservation and restoration, and architectural historianism. Professor Dellheim argues that the interest in the medieval past was far more than a revolt against modern civilization. The concern with the past had both "progressive" as well as "conservative" uses and expressed and reflected both provincial and national consciousness. In its broadest sense, the book shows how the Victorians reworked tradition to suit the needs of their unprecedented society.

The Disenchanted Isle - Mrs. Thatcher's Capitalist Revolution (Paperback): Charles Dellheim The Disenchanted Isle - Mrs. Thatcher's Capitalist Revolution (Paperback)
Charles Dellheim
R747 R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Save R87 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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