Is art worth a life? I submit they are indivisible; art is life.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 12, 2006.
Robert Edsel
discusses his recent book of photographic essays, the first comprehensive visual documentation of Hitler and the Nazis’ theft of Europe’s great art and its extraordinary rescue by the United States and its Allies. He also discusses his efforts to locate and honor the Monuments Men, the group of approximately four hundred members whose heroic actions saved much of Western culture.
Generously sponsored in part by the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies.