Fraternity
Nicholas Penny, 8 March 1990
The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. IV, Parts I-II: From the American Revolution to World War One
by Hugh Honour.
Harvard, 379 pp., £34.95, April 1989,9780939594177 Show More
by Hugh Honour.
Harvard, 379 pp., £34.95, April 1989,
Primitive Art in Civilised Places
by Sally Price.
Chicago, 147 pp., £15.95, December 1989,0 226 68063 0 Show More
by Sally Price.
Chicago, 147 pp., £15.95, December 1989,
The Return of Cultural Treasures
by Jeanette Greenfield.
Cambridge, 361 pp., £32.50, February 1990,0 521 33319 9 Show More
by Jeanette Greenfield.
Cambridge, 361 pp., £32.50, February 1990,
“... even when it has been legally acquired. But Price herself does not encourage wild indignation. Jeanette Greenfield’s survey of how some ‘cultural treasure’ has been returned – the extent is quite surprising – and of how most of it has not been, and of what Unesco and ICOM have had to say about it, is useful for its scrupulously-compiled lega ... ”
