Description |
xxxii, 1032 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Ch. 1. Plunder, Reparations and Destruction -- Ch. 2. The Illicit International Trade in Art: Who Owns the Past? -- Ch. 3. The Artist's Right in the Work of Art -- Ch. 4. Artistic Freedom -- Ch. 5. The Artist's Life -- Ch. 6. The Collector -- Ch. 7. Museums |
Summary |
Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts describes and critically discusses what happens when the art world encounters the law and vice versa. Thorough a combination of primary source materials, excerpts from professional and art journals and extensive textual notes, this work presents a thorough analysis of, inter alia: the fate of works of art in wartime; the international trade in stolen and illegally exported cultural property; artistic freedom, censorship and state support for art and artists; copyright, droit moral and droit de suite; the artist's professional life and death; collectors and the art market; income and estate taxation; charitable donations of works of art, and art museums and their collections. Art world professionals, including practising and academic lawyers, the art trade, art administrators, museum trustees and staff, art historians, archaeologists and art collectors will find this book of value |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed.: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Artists -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cases.
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Artists -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- Cases.
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation -- Cases.
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases.
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Law and art -- Cases.
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Law and art -- United States -- Cases.
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Author |
Elsen, Albert E., 1927-1995.
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LC no. |
98021891 |
ISBN |
9041106979 |
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9041197257 (paperback) |
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