After reading these articles and watching the video clip, write a brief (400-500 word) response paper in which you address the following questions (and please consider your answers carefully – these are complicated issues with little straight forward resolution):
-What are some of the arguments made for and against the return of artworks stolen or taken in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Which arguments (for either side) do you find most convincing? Is there anything that has been left out that you think needs to be considered?
-What factors do you think need to be taken into consideration when considering whether an individual artwork or object should be returned to its place or origin? Are there some categories of artworks that it makes more sense to return than others? Give specific examples from the sources (you don’t have to discuss EVERY source your read, but you should discuss more than one, certainly).
