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Author: Naomi Oosterman Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031140842 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 230
Book Description
This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime. Drawn from a diverse group of researchers and professionals, the work presented explores contemporary conceptualisations of art crime within broader contexts. In this volume, we see ‘art’ in its usual forms for art crime scholarship: in paintings and antiquities. However, we also see art in fossils and in violins, chairs and jewellery, holes in the ground and even in the institutions meant to protect any, or all, of the above. And where there is art, there is crime. Chapters in this volume, alternatively, zoom in on specific objects, on specific locations, and on specific institutions, considering how each interact with the various conceptions of crime that exist in those contexts. This volume challenges the boundaries of what we understand as “art and heritage crimes” and displays that both art, and criminality related to art, is creative and unpredictable.
Author: Naomi Oosterman Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031140842 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 230
Book Description
This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime. Drawn from a diverse group of researchers and professionals, the work presented explores contemporary conceptualisations of art crime within broader contexts. In this volume, we see ‘art’ in its usual forms for art crime scholarship: in paintings and antiquities. However, we also see art in fossils and in violins, chairs and jewellery, holes in the ground and even in the institutions meant to protect any, or all, of the above. And where there is art, there is crime. Chapters in this volume, alternatively, zoom in on specific objects, on specific locations, and on specific institutions, considering how each interact with the various conceptions of crime that exist in those contexts. This volume challenges the boundaries of what we understand as “art and heritage crimes” and displays that both art, and criminality related to art, is creative and unpredictable.
Author: Saskia Hufnagel Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137544058 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 909
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This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges. It has been authored by prominent scholars, practitioners and journalists in the field and includes both overviews of particular art crime issues as well as regional and national case studies. It is one of the first scholarly books in the current art crime literature that can be utilised as an immediate authoritative reference source or teaching tool. It also includes a bibliographic guide to the current literature across interdisciplinary boundaries. Apart from legal, criminological, archeological and historical perspectives on theft, fraud and looting, this volume contains chapters on iconoclasm and graffiti, underwater cultural heritage, the trade in human remains and the trade, theft and forgery of papyri. The book thereby hopes to encourage scholars from a wider variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to art crime research.
Author: Michael Finkel Publisher: Knopf Canada ISBN: 0735278962 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 229
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker "Enthralling." —The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
Author: Slavko Pregl Publisher: ISBN: 9781734302646 Category : Languages : en Pages : 402
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There are countless stories of buried, hidden, lost and then "exhumed" artworks, preserved thanks to having been hidden. The Croatian Jew Erich Slomovič possessed an art collection of around 600 paintings, including works by Picasso, Chagall and Matisse, which he acquired while working in Paris in his early twenties as the protégé of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard. When Slomovič fled Paris in anticipation of the Nazi invasion, he placed 190 paintings in a bank vault, while the rest were boxed up and smuggled across Nazi-occupied territories with the assistance of the Yugoslav Embassy, eventually to be brought to Belgrade. Slomovič was arrested shortly after and was killed in a concentration camp, aged 27. His art collection survived far longer. In 1981, the 190 works in the vault in Paris were set to be auctioned off, in lieu of unpaid banking expenses. This prompted Slomovič's descendants into legal action, in opposition to Vollard's heirs, who claimed that Slomovič stole the works from the renowned dealer. The auction of the vault's contents, which were eventually divided among Slomovič's and Vollard's heirs, finally went ahead at Sotheby's in 2010, and the 190 works earned around $30 million. But the 400 or so that made their way back to Belgrade were hidden behind a false wall, in anticipation of the rounding up of Belgrade's Jews, and remained undiscovered throughout the war. After the war, Slomovič's relatives recovered the artworks but died in a train crash while carrying them to Belgrade; the art was described in one account as being scattering across "a muddy field in central Serbia." The works were retrieved and eventually arrived at the National Museum of Belgrade, where they have remained ever since. But there are other versions of this story. It is all ostensibly true, but varies depending on which historical account you read, and who you ask. One alternate version is told in a novelistic style here by Leon Pogelsek, a Slovenian art dealer who personally knew some of the characters involved in the Yugoslav chapter of the story and, indeed, was involved himself-he appears in this story under the pseudonym Leon Sattler. He related his version of the Slomovič story, which remains one of the great mysteries of lost art, to multi-award-winning Slovenian author, Slavko Pregl. The result is the book in your hands. It's a true story to the best knowledge of the authors, but it reads like a novel. Can the lost collection be found? This book is published as part of the ARCA Publications imprint, dedicated to promoting knowledge and awareness of art crime and cultural heritage protection, and with the support of JAK, the Slovenian Book Agency. For more information on ARCA, visit www.artcrimeresearch.org.
Author: Noah Charney Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416550313 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Charney crafts an intellectual masterpiece--the mystery of three missing masterpieces that sends criminals and curators alike on a rollicking chase through the art galleries and auction houses of Europe.
Author: Minnie Bruce Pratt Publisher: Sinister Wisdom ISBN: 9781938334047 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 0
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Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first title from Sapphic Classics, a co-edition between Sinister Wisdom Magazine and A Midsummer Night's Press to reprint seminal works of lesbian poetry. "In spare and forceful language Minnie Bruce Pratt tells a moving story of loss and recuperation, discovering linkages between her own disenfranchisement and the condition of other minorities. She makes it plain, in this masterful sequence of poems, that the real crime against nature is violence and oppression."--From the Judges' Statement, Lamont Poetry Prize 1989, CRIME AGAINST NATURE "Minnie Bruce Pratt's CRIME AGAINST NATURE is, for a number of reasons, a work at the poetic crossroads. It extends the subject of love poetry; it extends the subject of feminist and lesbian poetry; it looks in several directions through the lens of a strong, sensuous poetics, through that fusion of experience with imagination that is the core of poetry, and through cadences founded in the music of speech, tightened and drawn to an individual pitch."--Adrienne Rich
Author: John Braithwaite Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521356688 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 242
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Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming wrongdoing. Shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming is done within a cultural context of respect for the offender, it can be an extraordinarily powerful, efficient and just form of social control. Braithwaite identifies the social conditions for such successful shaming. If his theory is right, radically different criminal justice policies are needed - a shift away from punitive social control toward greater emphasis on moralizing social control. This book will be of interest not only to criminologists and sociologists, but to those in law, public administration and politics who are concerned with social policy and social issues.
Author: Jean Genet Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681373629 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 129
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The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, Radiodiffusion Française commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying exposé. Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied his incarceration, relishing the special argot spoken behind bars, Genet bitterly denounced any improvement in the condition of young prisoners as a threat to their criminal souls. The radio station chose not to broadcast Genet’s views. “The Criminal Child” appears here with a selection of Genet’s finest essays, including his celebrated piece on the art of Alberto Giacometti.
Author: Stephen Eugene Brown Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1455730106 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 593
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This highly acclaimed criminology text presents an up-to-date review of rational choice theories, including deterrence, shaming, and routine activities.
Author: DK Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1465466541 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 354
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Investigate 100 of the world's most notorious crimes, including the Great Train Robbery, the Lindbergh kidnapping, and the murders of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Were the perpetrators delusional, opportunist, or truly evil? Find out what really happened and how the cases were solved. Discover conmen with sheer verve, such as Victor Lustig who "sold" the Eiffel Tower to scrap dealers in 1925, adrenaline-fuelled escapes, and mind-bending exploits of pirates, kidnappers, and drug cartels. The Crime Book demystifies malware, cybercrimes, and Ponzi schemes and sets out the terrifying ploys of mass murderers from 16th-century Elizabeth Báthory who drained young girls' blood to the more recent exploits of Rosemary and Fred West. Like a virus, crime mutates and adapts. The Crime Book explains how pivotal moments in history opened up new opportunities for criminals, such as the smuggling of alcohol during the American Prohibition era. It also charts developments in justice and forensics including the Innocence Project, which used DNA testing to exonerate wrongly convicted convicts. It examines how the forces of law and order have fought back against crime, explaining ingenious sting operations such as tracking down the jewel thief Bill Mason and the final capture of murderer Ted Bundy. With a foreword from bestselling crime author Cathy Scott, The Crime Book is an enthralling introduction to humanity's darker side. Series Overview: Big Ideas Simply Explained series uses creative design and innovative graphics, along with straightforward and engaging writing, to make complex subjects easier to understand. These award-winning books provide just the information needed for students, families, or anyone interested in concise, thought-provoking refreshers on a single subject.
Author: Naomi Oosterman
Author: Naomi Oosterman
Author: Saskia Hufnagel
Author: Michael Finkel
Author: Slavko Pregl
Author: Noah Charney
Author: Minnie Bruce Pratt
Author: John Braithwaite
Author: Jean Genet
Author: Stephen Eugene Brown
Author: DK