Subjects:

Art Law

Contents:

Plunder, Reparations and Destruction: Plunder and Reparations

Cultural Reparations

The Destruction of Works of Art. The International Trade In Art: The Unfree Trade in Cultural Property

International Trade Liberalization

Individual Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Trade in Stolen and Illegally Exported Art. Who Owns the Past? Antiquities Policies and Realities - Contrasting Views: Ethics and Antiquities

The Law: Illegal Export of Antiquities

The Law: Nationalized Cultural Property

The Effect of International Legislation

Repatriation of Cultural Property

The Protection of Traditional or Indigenous Knowledge. The Artist's Rights in the Work of Art: The Moral Right

Copyright

The Resale Right. Artistic Freedom: Some Historical Examples

"Censorship" of Art

The Artist and the State I - The State as Censor

The Artist and the State II - The State as Consumer

The Artist and the State III - The State as Benefactor. The Artist's Life: The Myth of the Lonely Artist

Defining the Artist. Living and Working as an Artist

Art as a Matter of Life and Death - Toxic Hazards

The Artist and the Lawyer

The Artist and the Dealer

The Artist and the Museum

Commissioned Works of Art

Taxes. The Collector: The Acquisition of Art, The Art Market

The Collector and the Artist

Dealing with Auctioneers

Consumer Protection and the Fine Arts

Theft and Artnapping

Taxes, Gifts to Charity, and Appraisers

The Collectors Divorce

The Collector Dies

The New Medici. (Part contents).

Although the 1990s witnessed more than a few episodes of shocking cultural destruction, this text notes a great surge in worldwide consciousness of the unique, irreplaceable character of art, and a significant rollback of the cultural prejudices that have been ebbing away since the 1954 Hague Convention declared all art works, whatever their origin, to be ""the cultural heritage of mankind."" Whether you need to understand a concept such as who owns the past, or something as mundane as whether a museum can sell part of its collection in order to fix the roof, this book aims to set you on the right course.

It combines scholarship with a humanistic approach, recognising that law and art each (in the words of Paul Freund) ""impose a measure of order on the disorder of experience without stifling the underlying diversity, spontaneity, and disarray.""