JOURNAL FOR ART MARKET STUDIES (JAMS)
The Journal for Art Market Studies (JAMS) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal for current international research on the art market of all periods. The articles are published in English.
Published by
Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies
www.fokum-jams.org
FOURTH ISSUE
Translocations and the Art Market
Volume 2, Number 2, 2018
Guest Editor: Bénédicte Savoy
Based on a detail from George Cruickshank, The Elgin Marbles! or John Bull buying stones at the time his numerous family want bread!! (engraving, 1816). Cover design: Amichai Green Grafik.
Ever since antiquity, the art market and the translocation of art have been closely related. The fourth issue of the Journal for Art Market Studies explores aspects of translocation facilitated by the art market, for example through lucrative trade in looted art as under the Nazis, the skillful exploitation of economic opportunities by wealthy overseas buyers, politically induced sales of national cultural assets as after the Russian Revolution, or the trade in colonial objects whose acquisition circumstances are often unknown.
Table of Contents
- Susanne Meyer-Abich
Editorial -
Bénédicte Savoy
Introduction - Christine Howald, Léa Saint-Raymond
Tracking dispersal: auction sales from the Yuanmingyuan loot in Paris in the 1860s - Cecilia Riva
An Art World Insider: Austen Henry Layard and the Nineteenth-Century European Art Trade - Waltraud M. Bayer
“A Past That Won’t Pass”: Stalin’s Museum Sales in a Transformed Global Context - David Martin Challis
Rodin’s Sculpture in Japan and the Economics of Translocation - Gitta Ho
Mobilisation of moveable assets: Objects designated for the art trade from the National Socialist plundering of the “M-Aktion” - Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Julia Friedel
Collected. Bought. Looted? Provenance Research at the Weltkulturenmuseum Frankfurt - Robert Arlt, Lucie Folan
Research and restitution: the National Gallery of Australia’s repatriation of a sculpture from the Buddhist site of Chandavaram - Gidena Mesfin Kebede
A Reflection: Translocations and Changes in Perspective - Eleonora Vratskidou
A Review: Stories of wheels within wheels – looted art at documenta 14 - Sebastian Willert
Book review: Fredrik Hagen and Kim Ryholt: The Antiquities Trade in Egypt 1880-1930. The H.O. Lange Papers