Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern Dellheim Charles
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 c l bre. In Belonging and Betrayal,…
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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 c l bre. 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 book 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,
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