Art and crime : exploring the dark side of the art world / edited by Noah Charney ; afterword by John Stubbs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charney, Noah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art thefts.

Art--Forgeries.

Art.

Physical Description:

xxv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger/ABC-CLIO, [2009]

Contents:

Part I Archaeology and Antiquities 1

Chapter 1 The Fundamental Importance of Archaeological Context / Derek Fincham 3

Chapter 2 Homecomings: Learning from the Return of Antiquities to Italy / David W. J. Gill 13

Chapter 3 Lack of Due Diligence and Unregulated Markets: Trade in Illicit Antiquities and Fakes in Hong Kong / Toby Bull 26

Part II Thieves and Forgers 39

Chapter 4 Who Is Stealing All Those Paintings? / A. J. G. Tijhuis 41

Chapter 5 The Affair of the Statuettes Reexamined: Picasso and Apollinaire's Role in the Famed Louvre Theft / Silvia Loreti 52

Chapter 6 Art, Terrorism, and Organized Crime / Bojan Dobovsek 64

Chapter 7 Fakes and Deception: Examining Fraud in the Art Market / Kenneth Polk, Duncan Chappell 72

Part III Crime and the Art Trade 85

Chapter 8 Implication of Art Theft in the Fine Art Insurance Industry / Dorit Straus 87

Chapter 9 Four Art Crimes and Their Effect on the Art Trade / Noah Charney 107

Chapter 10 Trepidations of a Private Art Collector / Judah Best 111

Chapter 11 Defending Art / Colonel Giovanni Pastore 115

Part IV Security and Museums 123

Chapter 12 Q&A with Two Innovative Security Directors / Dennis Ahern, Anthony Amore 125

Chapter 13 Exercises in Futility: The Pursuit of Protecting Art / Stevan P. Layne 137

Chapter 14 Security for Temporary Exhibitions: Regular, Customized, or Bespoke / Dick Drent 143

Part V Libraries and Archives 153

Chapter 15 The Quiet Crime: An Introduction to the World of Rare Book, Map, and Document Theft / Travis McDade 155

Chapter 16 Unexpected and Accessible: Threats to University Collections / John Kleberg 164

Chapter 17 Bringing It All Back Home: Recovery of Stolen Special Collections Materials / Richard W. Oram, Ann Hartley 172

Part VI Law and War 185

Chapter 18 Art Theft: Heralds of Change in the International Legal Landscape / Judge Arthur Tompkins 187

Chapter 19 Economic Woe, Art Theft, and Money Laundering: A Perfect Recipe / Dafydd Nelson 197

Chapter 20 The Artifacts of Wartime Art Crime: Evidence for a Model of the Evolving Clout of Cultural Property in Foreign Affairs / Erik Nemeth 205

Afterword Why Masterpieces Matter: Some Dogmatic Reflections / John Stubbs 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-245) and index.

ISBN:

9780313366352

0313366357

9780313366369

0313366365

OCLC:

290431547