| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. A certain love of art. Vermeer's Astronomer, or, Hitler's blind spot -- The Kümmel Report, or, The Nazis' reply to Napoleon -- Hermann Goering, "friend of the arts" -- pt. 2. Anatomy of a pillage. The exemplary looting of the Rothschild Collections -- The Paul Rosenberg Gallery : modern and "degenerate" art for sale -- The Bernheim-Jeune Collection, or, The burning of The Jas de Bouffan -- David David-Weill, or, The patron stripped bare -- The Schloss Collection, or, Dutch painters for Hitler -- pt. 3. Art for sale. Visitors to the Jeu de Paume -- Business as usual : the Paris art market during the war -- Switzerland : the importance of being neutral -- pt. 4. Revenants. The found and the lost -- A short Swiss epilogue : purchased skeletons in the Kunstkammern -- Something new on the eastern front -- The purgatory of the MNRs -- Appendix A. The Schenker papers -- Appendix B. An interview with Alain Vernay. |
| Subject |
Art thefts -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Germany -- Cultural policy.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
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Pillage -- France.
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| Added Title |
Musée disparu. English
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| ISBN |
0465041949 |
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0465041914 paperback |
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