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Art and Crime : Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Art Crime in Context; Part I: Archaeology and Antiquities; Chapter 1 The Fundamental Importance of Archaeological Context; Chapter 2 Homecomings: Learning from the Return of Antiquities to Italy; Chapter 3 Lack of Due Diligence and Unregulated Markets:...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara
: ABC-CLIO
, 2009
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| Edition: | Online-Ausg. |
| Series: | Non-Series
EBL-Schweitzer |
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| Online Access: | Volltext Volltext Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Related Items: | Druckausg.:
Art and crime |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Art Crime in Context; Part I: Archaeology and Antiquities; Chapter 1 The Fundamental Importance of Archaeological Context; Chapter 2 Homecomings: Learning from the Return of Antiquities to Italy; Chapter 3 Lack of Due Diligence and Unregulated Markets: Trade in Illicit Antiquities and Fakes in Hong Kong; Part II: Thieves and Forgers; Chapter 4 Who Is Stealing All Those Paintings?; Chapter 5 The Affair of the Statuettes Reexamined: Picasso and Apollinaire's Role in the Famed Louvre Theft; Chapter 6 Art, Terrorism, and Organized Crime
- Chapter 7 Fakes and Deception: Examining Fraud in the Art MarketPart III: Crime and the Art Trade; Chapter 8 Implication of Art Theft in the Fine Art Insurance Industry; Chapter 9 Four Art Crimes and Their Effect on the Art Trade; Chapter 10 Trepidations of a Private Art Collector; Chapter 11 Defending Art; Part IV: Security and Museums; Chapter 12 Q&A with Two Innovative Security Directors; Chapter 13 Exercises in Futility: The Pursuit of Protecting Art; Chapter 14 Security for Temporary Exhibitions: Regular, Customized, or Bespoke; Part V: Libraries and Archives
- Chapter 15 The Quiet Crime: An Introduction to the World of Rare Book, Map, and Document TheftChapter 16 Unexpected and Accessible: Threats to University Collections; Chapter 17 Bringing It All Back Home: Recovery of Stolen Special Collections Materials; Part VI: Law and War; Chapter 18 Art Theft: Heralds of Change in the International Legal Landscape; Chapter 19 Economic Woe, Art Theft, and Money Laundering: A Perfect Recipe; Chapter 20 The Artifacts of Wartime Art Crime: Evidence for a Model of the Evolving Clout of Cultural Property in Foreign Affairs
- Afterword: Why Masterpieces Matter: Some Dogmatic ReflectionsSelected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Contributors
