Art and Crime : Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World

by Charney, Noah

• ISBN13: 9780313366352
• ISBN10: 0313366357
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780313366369
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-14
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary

This book examines the world of art crime in its many manifestations and considers the consequences of these crimes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Art Crime in Context	p. xvii
Archaeology and Antiquities	p. 1
The Fundamental Importance of Archaeological Context	p. 3
Homecomings: Learning from the Return of Antiquities to Italy	p. 13
Lack of Due Diligence and Unregulated Markets: Trade in Illicit Antiquities and Fakes in Hong Kong	p. 26
Thieves and Forgers	p. 39
Who Is Stealing All Those Paintings?	p. 41
The Affair of the Statuettes Reexamined: Picasso and Apollinaire's Role in the Famed Louvre Theft	p. 52
Art, Terrorism, and Organized Crime	p. 64
Fakes and Deception: Examining Fraud in the Art Market	p. 72
Crime and the Art Trade	p. 85
Implication of Art Theft in the Fine Art Insurance Industry	p. 87
Four Art Crimes and Their Effect on the Art Trade	p. 107
Trepidations of a Private Art Collector	p. 111
Defending Art	p. 115
Security and Museums	p. 123
Q&A with Two Innovative Security Directors	p. 125
Exercises in Futility: The Pursuit of Protecting Art	p. 137
Security for Temporary Exhibitions: Regular, Customized, or Bespoke	p. 143
Libraries and Archives	p. 153
The Quiet Crime: An Introduction to the World of Rare Book, Map, and Document Theft	p. 155
Unexpected and Accessible: Threats to University Collections	p. 164
Bringing It All Back Home: Recovery of Stolen Special Collections Materials	p. 172
Law and War	p. 185
Art Theft: Heralds of Change in the International Legal Landscape	p. 187
Economic Woe, Art Theft, and Money Laundering: A Perfect Recipe	p. 197
The Artifacts of Wartime Art Crime: Evidence for a Model of the Evolving Clout of Cultural Property in Foreign Affairs	p. 205
Afterword	p. 225
Selected Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 247
About the Contributors	p. 253
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