Main entry:

Campbell, Elizabeth, 1970-

Title & Author:

Defending national treasures : French art and heritage under Vichy / Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Description:

xv, 382 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cultural affairs under Vichy -- Defending French style and beauty -- Exodus -- Museums fit for France -- Saving historic sites -- Archeology and the national revolution -- Recycling French heroes : the destruction of bronze statues -- Endangered local patrimony : bronze statues in Paris, Chambéry, and Nantes -- Jewish art collections -- Art as a negotiating tool -- The Vichy legacy.

Summary:

The author reconstructs the policies of art preservation under the Vichy government in France. She provides accounts of how and why French administrators formulated new laws regarding French cultural patrimony, then describes the process of evacuating art collections from the museums and keeping them safe in the provinces, negotiations with the acquisitive Nazis (including the story of the Bayeux Tapestry's travels), the give and take between the French museum administrators and the Germans over the formerly Jewish-owned art collections, and the reorganization of the museums and formulation of new preservation measures and archaeological regulations. She also describes the acquisition of bronze statues throughout France that were melted down in Germany.

ISBN:

9780804770187 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804770182 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art treasures in war France History 20th century.
Art museums France History 20th century.
Art and state France History 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 Destruction and pillage France.
World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions France.
Cultural property Protection France History 20th century.
Trésors artistiques durant la guerre France Histoire 20e siècle.
Art Politique gouvernementale France Histoire 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Destruction et pillage France.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Confiscations et contributions France.
Art and state
Art museums
Art treasures in war
Confiscations
Cultural property Protection
Destruction and pillage
Kulturgut.
Museum.
Kunst.
Sammlung.
Kunstdiebstahl.
Zerstörung.
Kulturgüterschutz.
Kulturpolitik.
Weltkrieg.
France.
Germany.
Art.
Cultural property.
Cultural heritage.
World War II.
History.
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) Confiscations et contributions.
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) Musées France.
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) Monuments.
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) Art et guerre.
Kulturarv skydd Frankrike tyska ockupationen 1940-1945.
Konstpolitik historia Frankrike 1900-talet.
Vichyregimen, Frankrike, 1940-1944.
France History German occupation, 1940-1945.
Frankreich.
France Vie intellectuelle 1940-1945.
Frankrike historia tyska ockupationen 1940-1945.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273153
Call No.: BIB 206624
Status: Available