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Artwashing the Past: Context Matters

Gill, David W.J. (2024) Artwashing the Past: Context Matters. Association for Research into Crimes Against Art . Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 300 pp. ISBN 979-8-8818-0327-8. E-ISBN 979-8-8818-0329-2. (In press) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:106874)

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Abstract

Artwashing the Past: Context Matters contributes to the wider discussion about the appropriate due diligence process that should be conducted prior to the acquisition of cultural objects. The chapters were written as museums in Europe and North America were facing a series of claims on recently acquired items in their collections in the light of the photographic dossiers that had been seized from dealers in Switzerland and Greece. They engage with some of the recent debates over cultural property that include the Ka Ka Nefer mummy mask currently in the St. Louis Art Museum, the Leutwitz Apollo acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the fragmentation of Athenian pottery. While the focus of the studies is on the Mediterranean world, two of the essays reflect on the recent and controversial metal-detecting finds in England, the so-called Crosby Garrett helmet and the Lenborough Hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled keywords: museology; museums; cultural property; acquisitions; illicit markets; clandestine excavations; looting; due diligence
Subjects: A General Works > AM Museums. Collectors and collecting
C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: David Gill
Date Deposited: 13 Aug 2024 15:15 UTC
Last Modified: 14 Aug 2024 09:34 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106874 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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