Afterlives : recovering the lost stories of looted art / Darsie Alexander and Sam Sackeroff ; essays by Julie Voss and Mark Wasiuta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, M. Darsie, author.

Sackeroff, Sam, author.

Contributor:

Voss, Julia, 1974- contributor.

Wasiuta, Mark, contributor.

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art appreciation.

World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war.

Art thefts--History--20th century.

Art thefts.

Confiscations.

Genre:

Art.

History.

Physical Description:

269 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Jewish Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

By the end of World War II an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books had been seized from their owners by Nazi forces; many were destroyed. The artworks and cultural artifacts that survived have traumatic, layered histories. This book traces the biographies of these objects - including paintings, sculpture, and Judaica - their rescue in the aftermath of the war, and their afterlives in museums and private collections and in our cultural understanding. In examining how this history affects the way we view these works, scholars discuss the moral and aesthetic implications of maintaining the association between the works and their place within the brutality of the Holocaust - or, conversely, the implications of ignoring this history. Afterlives offers a thought-provoking investigation of the unique ability of art and artifacts to bear witness to historical events. With rarely seen archival photographs and with contributions by the contemporary artists Maria Eichhorn, Hadar Gad, Dor Guez, and Lisa Oppenheim, this catalogue illuminates the study of a difficult and still-urgent subject, with many parallels to today's crises of art in war.

Contents:

Foreword / Claudia Gould

Donors and lenders to the exhibition

The room of the Martyrs, Jeu de Paume, Paris

Afterlives : the seizure, movement, and recovery of looted art / Darsie Alexander

Reconstructing culture / Sam Sackeroff

The architecture of dispossession / Mark Wasiuta

The history of German art politics : from 1933 to 2019, told in ten exhibitions / Julia Voss

Collection and redistribution: the Allied collecting points in Germany. The Offenbach Archival Depot ; The Munich Central Collecting Point ; The Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point

Recovered works and their histories

Artists' portfolios. Maria Eichhorn ; Hadar Gad ; Dor Guez ; Lisa Oppenheim

Selected bibliography / Olivia Casa.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780300250701

0300250703

OCLC:

1184240130