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Drawing --- drawings [visual works] --- looting --- art collections --- restitution --- Feldmann, Arthur --- Albertina [Vienna] --- looting [social issue]

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Art --- History of Germany and Austria --- looting [social issue] --- kunstroof --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949

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Art --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1930-1939 --- looting --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Destruction and pillage --- Europe --- Art thefts --- History --- 20th century --- Art treasures in war --- looting [social issue] --- kunstroof

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What does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to the aerial views of looted landscapes and destroyed temples visible on Google, the relationship between beauty and violence is far more intimate than we sometimes acknowledge. Jonah Siegel makes the daring argument that a thoughtful reaction to images of damage need not stop at melancholy, but can lead us to a new reckoning. Would the objects we admire be more beautiful if they were not injured or displaced, if they did not remind us of unbearable violence? Siegel takes up writers from the time of the French Revolution to today who have reacted to the depredations of revolutionary iconoclasm, colonial looting, and industrial capitalism, and proposes that in these authors we may find resources with which to navigate our contemporary situation. Deftly bringing the methods of literary studies to bear on important debates in the study of heritage, archaeology, and visual culture, Overlooking Damage reflects on the ways in which concepts of beauty intersect with periods of epochal violence in an attempt to resist the separation of broken things from the worlds in which they have come to be embedded.

Aesthetics. --- Art --- Ruins, Modern. --- Violence in art. --- Philosophy. --- Antiquities. --- Collections. --- Global History. --- Injury. --- Looking. --- Looting. --- Responsibility. --- Restitution. --- Violence. --- War.

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Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered materials from the Soviet Ministry of Finance and other European and American archives to expose some of the darkest secrets of Russia's early days of communism. Building on one archival revelation after another, the author reveals how the Bolsheviks financed their aggression through astonishingly extensive thievery. Their looting included everything from the cash savings of private citizens to gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, icons, antiques, and artwork. By tracking illicit Soviet financial transactions across Europe, McMeekin shows how Lenin's regime accomplished history's greatest heist between 1917 and 1922 and turned centuries of accumulated wealth into the sinews of class war. McMeekin also names names, introducing for the first time the compliant bankers, lawyers, and middlemen who, for a price, helped the Bolsheviks launder their loot, impoverish Russia, and impose their brutal will on millions.

Finance, Public --- Pillage --- History. --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government --- Looting --- Plundering --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Sack (Pillage) --- Military offenses --- Robbery --- War crimes --- Currency question --- Public finances