Art and Cultural Heritage La, Policy and Practice [Paperback]

This volume contains relevant and pressing issues in the law, policy, and the practice of art and cultural heritage protection.This volume is an effort by the Committee on Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law of the International Bar Association (IBA) to provide a resource that would assist legal practitioners, professionals working in institutions charged with art and culture heritage preservation, and archaeology, architecture and art history scholars to analyze and confront the many issues raised by the exploitation of art and cultural heritage.This volume is an effort by the Committee on Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law of the International Bar Association (IBA) to provide a resource that would assist legal practitioners, professionals working in institutions charged with art and culture heritage preservation, and archaeology, architecture and art history scholars to analyze and confront the many issues raised by the exploitation of art and cultural heritage.Art and Cultural Heritage is appropriately, not solely, about the law-national and international-respecting cultural heritage. It is a bubbling cauldron of law mixed with ethics, philosophy, politics and working principles about how cultural heritage law, policy and practice should be sculpted from the past as the present becomes the future. The authors explore these demanding concerns, untangle basic values, and look critically at the conflicts and contradictions in existing art and cultural heritage law and policy in its diverse sectors. The rich and provocative contributions collectively provide a reasoned discussion of the issues from a multiplicity of views to permit the reader to understand the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the cultural heritage debate.Part I. International Legal Tools and Viewpoints; Part II. Keeping Culture Alive; Part III. International Movement of Art and Cultural Property; Part IV. Protecting the World's Heritage; Part V. A Consideration of CultulÃ#