Belonging and Betrayal Audiobook Libro.fm

Description

The story of dealers of Old Masters champions of modern art and victims of Nazi plunder

Since the late1990s the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause clbre In Belonging and Betrayal Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place and what this reveals about Jews art and modernity This audiobook tells the epic story of the fortunes and misfortunes of a small number of eminent art dealers and collectors who against the odds played a pivotal role in the migration of works of art from Europe to the United States and in the triumph of modern art

Beautifully written and compellingly told this story takes place on both sides of the Atlantic from the late nineteenth century to the present It is set against the backdrop of critical transformations among them the gradual opening of European high culture the ambiguities of Jewish acculturation the massive selloff of aristocratic family art collections the emergence of different schools of modern art the cultural impact of World War I and the Nazi war against the Jews