Art and Cultural Heritage
Law, Policy and Practice

This volume contains relevant and pressing issues in the law, policy, and the practice of art and cultural heritage protection.

Barbara T. Hoffman (Edited by)

9780521122979, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 November 2009

604 pages
28 x 21 x 3.1 cm, 1.34 kg

Review of the hardback: 'This is the first publication to look at the welter of national and international law on cultural objects and heritage, and critically, at the same time, to allow a truly diverse representative group of contributors to comment on and present arguments concerning the legal status, the care and the future custodianship of cultural patrimony. No longer will well meaning commentators from cultural-object-consuming nations dominate the debate, whatever the philosophic basis of their stance.' The Art Newspaper

Art and Cultural Heritage is appropriately, but not solely, about national and international law respecting cultural heritage. It is a bubbling cauldron of law mixed with ethics, philosophy, politics and working principles looking at how cultural heritage law, policy and practice should be sculpted from the past as the present becomes the future. Art and cultural heritage are two pillars on which a society builds its identity, its values, its sense of community and the individual. 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 Cultural and Natural Heritage Guidelines Applicable to Infrastructure Projects, Mining Operations and their Financing
Part VI. Who Owns the Titanic's Treasures? Protection of the Underwater Archeological/Cultural Heritage
Part VII. Who Owns traditional Knowledge?
Part VIII. Museums and Cultural Heritage
Part IX. Caring and Sharing
Part X. Resolving Cultural Heritage Disputes.

Subject Areas: Law & society [LAQ], Comparative law [LAM], Systems of law [LAF]