Background
Elsen, Albert Edward was born on October 11, 1927 in New York City. Son of Albert George and Julia Louise (Huseman) Elsen.
("The sole purpose of the arts is neither description or i...)
"The sole purpose of the arts is neither description or imitation, but the creation of unknown beings from elements which are always present but not apparent," wrote Raymond Duchamp-Villon in 1911, and therein he defined the quest of the sculptor in his era.
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Since its first edition in 1979, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts established itself as the leading art law text among law professors, students, and practitioners. This new and newly illustrated, fifth edition, revised in collaboration with Stephen K. Urice, incorporates recent changes in treaty, statutory, and case law. It includes discussion of recent developments from the resurgence of iconoclasm to military conflicts' depredations on cultural property. As in earlier editions, the authors present legal issues in their historical contexts. The broad range of topics addressed in the 5th edition, makes the text especially adaptable for use in multiple classroom settings. These topics include: • U.S. museums' return of works of art and antiquities to claimants such as Holocaust survivors and foreign nations • Artist's rights such as copyright and moral rights • International movement of art and antiquities • Fakes and forgeries in the art market • The inner workings of art auctions • Plundering and destruction of works of art in times of war and military conflict • Censorship of obscene or politically challenging works of art • And many more In this edition, documents previously presented in a separate documentary appendix have been integrated into the text to provide immediate access to important treaties and other materials. Whether you need to understand something as provocative as who owns the past, or something as mundane as whether a museum can sell a work of art to fix the roof, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts provides the information you need. It combines unassailable scholarship with a deeply humanistic approach, recognizing that law and art each "impose a measure of order on the disorder of experience without stifling the underlying diversity, spontaneity, and disarray" (Paul Freund).
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Elsen, Albert Edward was born on October 11, 1927 in New York City. Son of Albert George and Julia Louise (Huseman) Elsen.
AB, Columbia, 1949; Master of Arts, Columbia, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1955; Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Dickinson College, 1980.
Assistant professor art history, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1952-1958; associate professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1958-1962; professor, Indiana U., 1963-1968; professor art history, Stanford University, 1968-1995; Walter A. Haas professor art history, Stanford University, 1976-1995.
(The late Albert Elsen was the first American scholar to s...)
("The sole purpose of the arts is neither description or i...)
(Since its first edition in 1979, Law, Ethics and the Visu...)
(Purposes of Art: An Introduction to the History and Appre...)
(This work examines the radical changes that transformed s...)
(With 68 plates in black-and-white, with a frontispiece in...)
(Book by Elsen, Albert Edward)
(Book by Elsen, Albert Edward)
(Book by Elsen, Albert Edward)
(Book by Elsen, Albert Edward)
(First Edition - 1979. 2 Volume set. Hardcover, post-type ...)
(Third Edition/1972. Outside dust cover a bit aged, but in...)
(Book by Albert E. Elsen)
(GREAT ART BOOK)
(1981. 4°. With numerous illustrations. 348 p., softcover.)
Served to sergeant major Army of the United States, 1945-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member College Art Association (director) 1966-1970, president 1974-1976).
Married (divorced); children: Matthew, Nancy, Katherine.