Thinking Provenance, Thinking Restitution: Art-Historical, Legal, and Museological Perspectives

Almost three decades since the 1998 Washington Conference on Holocaust—Era Assets, a new awareness of provenance research and practices of restitution has taken hold. This volume brings together voices from academia, museums and the art trade for a critical consideration of these developments, including essays that analyze restitution cases from a legal perspective in the UK, France and Germany, explore provenance as a form of knowledge and through its materiality, and question how internat...