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Art and the State
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 105.00This book examines the impact of states and their policies on visual art. States shape the role of art and artists in society, influence the development of audiences, support artistic work, and even affect the very nature of artistic production. The book contrasts developments in the United States with art policies in Britain and in the social democratic... more...
Hermann Göring and the Nazi Art Collection
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Spearheaded by Hermann Goring, Reichsmarschall of the Third Reich, the looting program quickly created the largest private art collection in the world, exceeding the collections amassed by the Metropolitan... more...
Nazi Plunder
Da Capo Press 2003; US$ 16.95Stories of the looting of Europe's great treasures during World War II--and their still-unknown hideaways more...
The Artist's Guide to Public Art
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 5.82Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. First-hand interviews with experienced public artists and arts administrators provide in-the-trenches advice and insight, and a chapter on public art law, written by Barbara Hoffman, the country's leading public art law attorney, answers questions about this complex area.... more...
Crimes of the Art World
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 45.00Forgeries, fakes, fencing, and felony theftÑall are pervasive problems in the world of art, where the stakes are high, the networks wide, and the consequences profound. In recent years, suspicious acquisitions, unreliable provenances, and shady dealers have found their way into the headlines as museums and private collections have been confronted... more...
Locality, Regeneration & Divers[c]ities
Intellect 2000; US$ 10.00As British cities lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new postindustrial futures through urban regeneration. Art projects play a key role in policymaking that aims to regenerate neglected neighbourhoods. This study focuses particularly on the ways in which newlydeveloped cultural institutions tend to be flagships... more...
Creative Rebellion for the Twenty-First Century
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00Employing political philosophy to argue the need for social and public art projects to be a part of the everyday lives of Americans, Boros creates a new synthesis of philosophical ideas to support the political value of public art. more...
The Gardner Heist
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99?Boser cracks the cold case of the art world?s greatest unsolved mystery.? ? Vanity Fair ?The True Story of the World?s Largest Unsolved Art Theft,? The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser is a fascinating account of a brazen and amazing criminal act?a book that could help police and investigators solve the mystery of the 1990 break-in... more...
Nationaler Kulturgüterschutz und Freizügigkeit der Unionsbürger
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 133.00The subject of this examination is the issue of whether and to what extent the Member States of the European Community may classify privately owned cultural assets as national cultural assets and if the transfer of such assets abroad can be prohibited if the owner of such cultural asset exercises its right of free movement. The aim of this study is... more...
The Practice of Public Art
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 116.00This exciting new collection of essays by practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators offers divergent perspectives on the numerous facets of the public art process. The volume also includes a useful graphic timeline of public art history. more...









