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The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men

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As the Allies advanced into Germany in April 1945, General Patton's Third Army discovered the collections of the Berlin museums hidden in a salt mine 2,100 feet underground. Placed in the care of the "Monuments Men," the collections were sent to the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point, directed by Captain Walter I. Farmer of Cincinnati. In November 1945, the U.S. military government in Germany ordered that 202 works of art of the greatest importance" from German public collections be sent to Washington for safekeeping. After two years in storage, they were exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in 1948, before being sent on a whistle-stop tour of 13 U.S. cities.The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics, and the Monuments Men tells the story of how, and why, some of the worlds most iconic artworks toured the USA in what became the first blockbuster show. This fully illustrated volume is the first to examine the entire journey of the 202 and its historical-political implications from the salt mines to the Wiesbaden CCP to their sensational tour and return to a very different Germany at the onset of the Cold War. It offers insights into Farmer and his fellow Monuments Mens protest of the transfer, the Wiesbaden Manifesto; the logistics of the US tour and popular reactions to the unprecedented exhibition in post-war America. This history is framed by essays on the fate of artworks in Nazi Germany and during the war, and on the significance of modern efforts to research the history of ownership of works of art. Augmenting the essays are an exhibition catalogue, interviews with the people closest to Walter Farmer in his later life, and a complete illustrated checklist of the 202.The Berlin Masterpieces in America is a significant contribution to the growing interest in re-evaluating the policy of using art as political propaganda, and with the enduring problems of provenance and restitution.

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Emily Grace 14,8 x 0,7 x 21 cm 21,6 x 0,2 x 27,9 cm 25 Şubat 2018 Kolektif Collectif 21 x 0,5 x 29,7 cm edition cumulus 23 Temmuz 2017 12 Ekim 2016 21,6 x 0,6 x 27,9 cm 22 Mayıs 2016 28 Şubat 2018 14,8 x 0,5 x 21 cm 12 Eylül 2017 J B SBoon Insight Editions 21 x 0,5 x 29,6 cm

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