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Author Merryman, John Henry.

Title Law, ethics, and the visual arts / John Henry Merryman, Albert E. Elsen
Edition Third edition
Published London ; Boston : Kluwer Law International, 1998

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 MELB  KA 70 A7 Mer/Lea 1998  AVAILABLE
Description xxxii, 1032 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Plunder, Reparations and Destruction -- Ch. 2. The Illicit International Trade in Art: Who Owns the Past? -- Ch. 3. The Artist's Right in the Work of Art -- Ch. 4. Artistic Freedom -- Ch. 5. The Artist's Life -- Ch. 6. The Collector -- Ch. 7. Museums
Summary Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts describes and critically discusses what happens when the art world encounters the law and vice versa. Thorough a combination of primary source materials, excerpts from professional and art journals and extensive textual notes, this work presents a thorough analysis of, inter alia: the fate of works of art in wartime; the international trade in stolen and illegally exported cultural property; artistic freedom, censorship and state support for art and artists; copyright, droit moral and droit de suite; the artist's professional life and death; collectors and the art market; income and estate taxation; charitable donations of works of art, and art museums and their collections. Art world professionals, including practising and academic lawyers, the art trade, art administrators, museum trustees and staff, art historians, archaeologists and art collectors will find this book of value
Notes Includes index
Previous ed.: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Artists -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cases.
Artists -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- Cases.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation -- Cases.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases.
Law and art -- Cases.
Law and art -- United States -- Cases.
Author Elsen, Albert E., 1927-1995.
LC no. 98021891
ISBN 9041106979
9041197257 (paperback)