Defending National Treasures
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Defending National Treasures
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Author : Elizabeth Karlsgodt
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-07
Defending National Treasures written by Elizabeth Karlsgodt and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with History categories.
Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. The French cultural patrimony was a crucial locus of power struggles between German and French leaders and among influential figures in each country. Karlsgodt examines the preservation policy that the Vichy regime enacted in an assertion of sovereignty over French art museums, historic monuments, and archeological sites. The limits to this sovereignty are apparent from German appropriations of public statues, Jewish-owned art collections, and key "Germanic" works of art from French museums. A final chapter traces the lasting impact of the French wartime reforms on preservation policy. In Defending National Treasures, Karlsgodt introduces the concept of patrimania to reveal examples of opportunism in art preservation. During the war, French officials sought to acquire coveted artwork from Jewish collections for the Louvre and other museums; in the early postwar years, they established a complicated guardianship over unclaimed art recovered from Germany. A cautionary tale for our own times, Defending National Treasures examines the ethical dimensions of museum acquisitions in the ongoing noble quest to preserve great works of art.
Defending National Treasures
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Author : Elizabeth Karlsgodt
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-07
Defending National Treasures written by Elizabeth Karlsgodt and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with History categories.
National Treasures explores the fate of French art and heritage during the Nazi occupation of France, revealing the roots of contemporary cultural policy in the Vichy era and exposing a hidden convergence of resistance and collaboration in French museology.
Defending Our National Treasure
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Author : Christine Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Defending Our National Treasure written by Christine Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with categories.
Museum Worthy
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Author : Elizabeth Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-23
Museum Worthy written by Elizabeth Campbell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-23 with Art categories.
Museum Worthy examines the history behind works of art that were looted in western Europe by the Nazis during the Second World War and never returned to their rightful owners, instead claimed by postwar governments of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands for display in museums, embassies, ministries, and other public buildings.
Protecting Our National Treasures
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Author : Bruce E. Babbitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Protecting Our National Treasures written by Bruce E. Babbitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Conservation of natural resources categories.
Protecting Our National Treasures
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Author : Bruce E. Babbitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Protecting Our National Treasures written by Bruce E. Babbitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Conservation of natural resources categories.
Protecting Our National Treasures
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Author : Bruce E. Babbitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Protecting Our National Treasures written by Bruce E. Babbitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Conservation of natural resources categories.
Saving The Light At Chartres
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Author : Victor A. Pollak
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-03-16
Saving The Light At Chartres written by Victor A. Pollak and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-16 with History categories.
Built around 1200 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws more than a million visitors and pilgrims each year, Chartres Cathedral is one of the jewels of Western Civilization. How Chartres Cathedral and its priceless stained glass (today the largest such collection in one location) survived World War II’s widespread destruction of cultural monuments is one of the great stories of recent history. Saving the Light at Chartres begins half a decade before World War II, when a young French architect developed a plan to save the cathedral’s precious stained glass. As war engulfed Europe in the fall of 1939, master glass artisans dismantled the hundreds of windows, and soldiers, tradesmen, and laborers with local volunteers crated thousands of glass panels, stowed them in the crypt, and months later—just before German invaders reached Chartres—hauled them across the country to an underground quarry. This effort to save the stained glass is but a prologue. By August 1944, the U.S. Army had broken out of Normandy and was racing across France toward Paris and the Seine. Chartres became a key battleground. Allied bombing blew out the cathedral’s temporary window coverings, and when the Americans—assisted by French Resistance fighters—entered the city in the face of unexpectedly heavy defiance and snipers in the cathedral, many soldiers believed German artillery spotters were occupying the cathedral’s spires. When Colonel Welborn Griffith Jr.—a senior operations officer of Twentieth Corps in Patton’s Third Army—arrived, some were pressing to countermand the army’s standing order to avoid the cathedral and threatened to destroy it to neutralize the German spotters. Griffith was skeptical. He inspected the cathedral himself, climbed its towers, but found no Germans, so he rang the bell, waved an American flag, and ordered that the cathedral be spared, saving it from destruction. Griffith would be killed later that day. Victor Pollak tells both stories—the rescue of the windows and Colonel Griffith’s fateful role—in a compelling narrative. Saving the Light at Chartres honors the government and local teams who saved the windows, the Resistance that performed a vital role in the liberation of Chartres, Welborn Griffith, and the enduring treasure that is Chartres Cathedral.
Forgotten Blitzes
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Author : Claudia Baldoli
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-05-03
Forgotten Blitzes written by Claudia Baldoli and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-03 with History categories.
France and Italy account for fully one third of all Allied bombs dropped on Europe between 1940 and 1945. Italy received some 370,000 tons of bombs, nearly five times the total dropped on Britain by the Luftwaffe; France, over 570,000, nearly eight times the British figure. In each country, over 55,000 civilians died. Until now, studies of bombing in World War 2 have focused largely on the British and German experiences; few cover France or Italy. Forgotten Blitzes aims to remedy this. It explains the reasons for the Allied offensives, and uses political, social and cultural approaches to explore the challenges faced by states and peoples as the bombs fell. Massive research in local and national archives across four countries, complemented by diaries and personal memoirs, has allowed the authors to build a detailed, comparative picture of the impact of bombing on states, local authorities and individuals.
Saving Mona Lisa
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Author : Gerri Chanel
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2018-09-13
Saving Mona Lisa written by Gerri Chanel and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-13 with Art categories.
In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces still further south, then again and again during the war, crisscrossing the southwest of France. Throughout the German occupation, the museum staff fought to keep the priceless treasures out of the hands of Hitler and his henchmen, often risking their lives to protect the country's artistic heritage. Saving Mona Lisa is the sweeping, suspenseful narrative of their struggle.