Artwashing the Past: Context Matters (Association for Research into Crimes Against Art)

Cover
Half Title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction: The Artwashing of the Past
Part II: Returning Antiquities to Their Country of Origin
1 Museums and the Looted World
2 Disputed Antiquities: How Do Museums Respond to the Evidence?
3 The Return of the Minneapolis Krater
4 The Returns from Princeton University Art Museum
5 The Returns from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
6 Dallas Museum of Art Takes the Initiative
7 Nostoi: Displaying Returning Antiquities to Italy
Part III: Breaking up the Past
8 Fragmented Pots from the Collection of Dietrich von Bothmer
9 The Fragmentary Gifts of Werner Nussberger
10 Fragmented Athenian Cups
Part IV: Remaining Questions Over Disputed Antiquities
11 Objects from Selinous at the J. Paul Getty Museum
12 The Minneapolis Doryphoros
Part V: Selling the Past
13 Nikolas Koutoulakis, the Antiquities Market, and Due Diligence
14 Learning from the Sale of a Roman Herm: The Need for More Rigorous Due Diligence Searches
15 The Auction Market and Due Diligence: The Need for Action
16 Transparency and Good Faith in the Contemporary Antiquities Market
17 The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Seizures, and Due Diligence
18 Compliance and the Antiquities Market
Part VI: Sourcing Antiquities
19 Looting in the Balkans
20 From Palmyra to Mayfair: The Movement of Antiquities from Syria and Northern Iraq
21 Thefts from Museums and Archaeological Stores
Part VII: Collecting Histories Matter
22 Collecting Histories and the Market for Classical Antiquities
23 The Leutwitz Apollo in the Cleveland Museum of Art
24 The Case of the Ka Nefer Nefer Mummy Mask in the St. Louis Art Museum
25 The Portraits of Drusus Minor and Tiberius from Sessa Aurunca, Italy
Part VIII: Curating and Collecting the Past
26 Malibu Memoirs: Marion True and the J. Paul Getty Museum
27 The Graham Geddes Collection and Loans to Museums
28 Reflections on the Várez Fisa Collection in Madrid
29 Returns from the Shelby White Collection
Part IX: Protecting the Past: Does the Approach in England Work?
30 The Roman Cavalry Parade Helmet Said to Be from Crosby Garrett in Cumbria
31 The Anglo-Saxon Coin Hoard from Lenborough in Buckinghamshire
32 Finding Portable Roman Objects in England
Part X: Protecting the Past: International Agreements
33 Italy and the United States: Reviewing Cultural Property Agreements
34 Greece and the United States: Reviewing Cultural Property Agreements
Part XI: Debating Cultural Property
35 Horse Trading: Museums, Exhibitions, and Cultural Property
36 Museums Matter: Context Matters
37 The Case for Retention
References
Index
About the Author