Overview
Addresses current developments concerning the art market, its legal and ethical aspects and key challenges
Provides a multi-disciplinary analysis
Focuses on the restitution of cultural property and dispute settlement
Written by authors from a wide array of backgrounds
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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In the age of economic globalisation, do art and heritage matter? Once the domain of elitist practitioners and scholars, the governance of cultural heritage and the destiny of iconic artefacts have emerged as the new frontier of international law, making headlines and attracting the varied interests of academics and policy-makers, museum curators and collectors, human rights activists and investment lawyers and artists and economists, just to mention a few. The return of cultural artefacts to their legitimate owners, the recovery of underwater cultural heritage and the protection and promotion of artistic expressions are just some of the pressing issues addressed by this book.
Contemporary intersections between art, cultural heritage and the market are complicated by a variety of ethical and legal issues, which often describe complex global relations. Should works of art be treated differently from other goods? What happens if a work of art, currently exhibited in a museum, turns out to have originally been looted? What is the relevant legal framework? What should be done with ancient shipwrecks filled with objects from former colonies? Should such objects be kept by the finders? Should they be returned to the country of origin? This book addresses these different questions while highlighting the complex interplay between legal and ethical issues in the context of cultural governance. The approach is mainly legal but interdisciplinary aspects are considered as well.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Whose Art?
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Conservation and Management
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market
Book Subtitle: Ethical and Legal Issues
Editors: Valentina Vadi, Hildegard E. G. S. Schneider
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45094-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-45093-8Published: 10 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51151-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-45094-5Published: 27 January 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 342
Topics: International Economic Law, Trade Law, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Economics, Fine Arts, Public International Law, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law