Afterlives
Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
$58.35
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
7 June 2022
Summary
A strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World War II on how we understand the art that survived it
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300250701 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0300250703 |
| Author: | Darsie Alexander, Sam Sackeroff, Julia Voss, Mark Wasiuta |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 7 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 1.27kg |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 267mm |
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Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award finalist, sponsored by College Art Association
Darsie Alexander
Darsie Alexander is the Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator and Sam Sackeroff is the Lerman-Neubauer Assistant Curator at the Jewish Museum, New York.
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