Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern

by Charles Dellheim

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684580560
• ISBN13: 9781684580569
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.2" x 10.0"