El. knyga: Echoes of Exile: Moscow Archives and the Arts in Paris 1933-1945 [De Gruyter E-books]

Originating in an international conference in Moscow in 2011, which was held in French, German, and Russian, and whose aim was to promote international discussion and basic research on art history during the period 1933-1945, this volume presents papers belonging to anti-Fascist exiles in France and those of the German Jewish art critic Paul Westheim in particular. Nine essays are: German-speaking artists in Parisian exile; plunder, restitution, emotion and the weight of archives; “trophy” archives in Moscow and the art scene in France and Germany under the National Socialist Regime, 1933-1945; lifting the veil on Moscow’s secret archives; the Arthur Goldschmidt file in the Archive of the Direction de la Suret<’e>te; “not my most beautiful but my best paintings”; the art historian Charlotte Weidler; the Paul Cassirer Gallery (1933-1945); August Liebmann Mayer (1885-1944). Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)