Playing Darts with a Rembrandt: Public and Private Rights in Cultural Treasures

"Sax's purpose is not to settle but to clarify the ways in which private and public interests clash over cultural patrimony. His book has two effects. It awakens the reader to the variety of cultural circumstances that bring private and civic values into conflict. And it heightens one's respect for the potential of the law--or of legal thinkers such as Sax--to resolve such conflicts reasonably."Joseph L. Sax is the author of 'Playing Darts with a Rembrandt: Public and Private Rights in Cultural Treasures', published 2001 under ISBN 9780472087846 and ISBN 0472087843.