Landscape with Smokestacks by Howard J Trienens

Landscape with Smokestacks by Howard J Trienens

The dispute over Edgar Degas’s Landscape with Smokestacks was featured in newspapers and on television. But because the suit was settled before trial, the story behind the headlines was never publicly presented. Howard J. Trienens, a lawyer for the defendant collector, traces the landscape’s travels from its prewar home to its current location in the Art Institute of Chicago, laying out the mystery surrounding the work and demonstrating the legal complexities that plague Holocaust restitution cases, yet are seldom examined in depth by the media.

"Howard Trienen's Landscape with Smokestacks is a lucid, engaging book that offers an unusual vantage on the world of art collecting and the heritage of the HolocaustMost notably, it demonstrates why the muddy, boring, detailed truth of the law, that emerges from adversarial skirmishing, can prove more reliable than that of journalism, where the independent observers are sometimes too eager to capitulate to preestablished verities."  —Scott Turow|"Trienens not only exposes the weakness of the lawsuit, he decries simplistic media coverage and cautions against making tacit assumptions."  —Booklist

Howard J. Trienens served as a law clerk to Supreme Court justice Frederick M. Vinson from 1950 to 1952 before permanently joining the law firm of Sidley & Austin, where he became a partner in 1956. He has been a senior vice president and the general counsel for AT&T and a director of R. R. Donnelley & Sons and G. D. Searle and is currently a member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. He lives in Glencoe, Illinois.

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ISBN 13	9780810134478
ISBN 10	0810134470
Title	Landscape with Smokestacks
Author	Howard J Trienens
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Northwestern University Press
Year published	2000-11-30
Number of pages	122
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