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Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections
A Research GuideJacques Schuhmacher
University College London, 2024
The first comprehensive guide written in English on how to research the Nazi-era provenance of museum collections since the publication of the AAM Guide to Provenance Research.
When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis—a possibility that has remained unacknowledged for far too long. Countless artworks were seized or forcibly sold by the Nazi regime, with many ending up in museum collections around the world, even in countries that actively fought to defeat Nazi Germany.
Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections equips readers with the knowledge and strategies essential for confronting the shadow of the Nazi past in museum collections. Jacques Schuhmacher provides the vital historical orientation required to understand the Nazis’ complex campaign of systematic dispossession and extermination and highlights the current environment in which museum-based Nazi-era provenance research takes place. This book introduces readers to the research methods and resources that can be used to reveal the moving stories behind the objects. Provenance research not only seeks to recover erased names and experiences and to reinsert them into a historical record but also to ensure that the Nazis’ actions and worldview do not remain unchallenged in the galleries and storerooms of our museums today. It is a crucial resource for scholars, museum professionals, and anyone interested in understanding the ethical and historical implications of Nazi-looted art.
When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis—a possibility that has remained unacknowledged for far too long. Countless artworks were seized or forcibly sold by the Nazi regime, with many ending up in museum collections around the world, even in countries that actively fought to defeat Nazi Germany.
Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections equips readers with the knowledge and strategies essential for confronting the shadow of the Nazi past in museum collections. Jacques Schuhmacher provides the vital historical orientation required to understand the Nazis’ complex campaign of systematic dispossession and extermination and highlights the current environment in which museum-based Nazi-era provenance research takes place. This book introduces readers to the research methods and resources that can be used to reveal the moving stories behind the objects. Provenance research not only seeks to recover erased names and experiences and to reinsert them into a historical record but also to ensure that the Nazis’ actions and worldview do not remain unchallenged in the galleries and storerooms of our museums today. It is a crucial resource for scholars, museum professionals, and anyone interested in understanding the ethical and historical implications of Nazi-looted art.
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Northern New Spain
A Research GuideThomas C. Barnes, Thomas H. Naylor, and Charles W. Polzer
University of Arizona Press, 1981
This research guide was first concieved to fulfill multiple needs of the research team of the Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) project at the Arizona State Museum. In performing research tasks, it became evident that reference material was scattered throughout scores of books and monographs. A single complete source book was simply not available. Hence, the editors of the DRSW project compiled this guide. The territory under study comprises all of northern Mexico in colonial times.
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Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies
Abé Mark Nornes and Aaron Gerow
University of Michigan Press, 2009
The Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies provides a snapshot of all the archival and bibliographic resources available to students and scholars of Japanese cinema. Among the nations of the world, Japan has enjoyed an impressively lively print culture related to cinema. The first film books and periodicals appeared shortly after the birth of cinema, proliferating wildly in the 1910s with only the slightest pause in the dark days of World War II. The numbers of publications match the enormous scale of film production, but with the lack of support for film studies in Japan, much of it remains as uncharted territory, with few maps to negotiate the maze of material.
This book is the first comprehensive guide ever published for approaching the complex archive for Japanese cinema. It lists all the libraries and film archives in the world with significant collections of film prints, still photographs, archival records, books, and periodicals. It provides a full annotated bibliography of the core books and magazines for the field. And it supplies hints for how to find and access materials for any research project. Above and beyond that, Nornes and Gerow’s Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies constitutes a comprehensive overview of the impressive dimensions and depth of the print culture surrounding Japanese film, and a guideline for future research in the field. This is an essential book for anyone seriously thinking about Japan and its cinema.
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Research Guide to People’s Daily Editorials, 1949–1975
Michel Oksenberg and Gail Henderson, Editors
University of Michigan Press, 1982
An indispensable aid to researching a crucial series of policy statements, the present guide provides access to the only continuous source from China which illuminates high-level policy.
Includes an extensive subject index.
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