Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art

by Sam Sackeroff and Darsie Alexander

A strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World War II on how we understand the art that survived it

By the end of World War II an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books had been seized from their owners by Nazi forces; many were destroyed. The artworks and cultural artifacts that survived have traumatic, layered histories. This book traces the biographies of these objects--including paintings, sculpture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300250703
• ISBN13: 9780300250701
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.0" x 10.7"