Belonging and Betrayal
How Jews Made the Art World Modern
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Narrated by:
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Peter Noble
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By:
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Charles Dellheim
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The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder.
Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause célèbre. 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 sell-off 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.
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- cyberdonkey
- 13-10-23
A story well worth telling
The contents of this book both ilumininate and elucidate the role Jewish art dealers have had on the modern art world. Often championing the modern over the ancient and promoting artists who now are reveered when they were scoffed at by their contemporary. The callous appropriation that occurred in the second world war of art objects from Jews is sensitively handled and made me think how paradoxical it is that the Nazis could be at once so cultured yet so cruel.
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