Since the Second World War, art crime has shifted from a relatively innocuous, often ideological crime, into a major international problem, considered by some to be the third-highest grossing criminal trade worldwide. This rich volume features essays on art crime by the most respected and knowledgeable experts in this interdisciplinary subject.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword: Advances in the Study of Art Crime and the Importance of Protecting and Identifying Cultural Property; Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
Introduction; Noah Charney
PART : FORGER: FAKES AND FORGERIES
1. The Beltracchi Affair: A Comment and Further Reflections on the 'Most Spectacular' German Art Forgery Case in Recent Times; Saskia Hufnagel and Duncan Chappell
2. On "In Praise of Forgeries"; Blake Gopnik
3. Connoisseurship All the Way Down: Art Authentication, Forgery, Fingerprint Identification, Expert Knowledge; Simon A. Cole
4. The Police Investigation of Art Fraud; Vernon Rapley
5. The Grape War of China: Wine Fraud and How Science is Fighting Back; Toby Bull
6. Fingerprinting Objects for the Control of Illegal Trafficking; W. Wei
PART II: TERRORIST: POLICING, INVESTIGATION AND TERRORISM
7. The Theft, Recovery and Forensic Investigation of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder; Martin Kemp
8. Trying to Recover Two Francesco Guardi Capricci Stolen from Russborough, County Wicklow, in 1986; Charles Hill
9. The Role of the Police in the Co-Production of Art Security in London; John Kerr
10. Thieves of Baghdad: and the Terrorists they Finance; Matthew Bogdanos
11. Looting of Antiquities; Tearing the Fabric of Civil Society; Laurie W. Rush
12. The Return of Iconoclasm: Barbarian Ideology and Destruction by ISIS as a Challenge for Modern Culture, Not Only for Islam; Francesco Rutelli
PART III: TOMB RAIDER: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTIQUITIES LOOTING
13. Looting and Passion of Greek Vases from Etruria and Magna Graecia: the Birth of the Great Collections; Stefano Alessandrini
14. Aramaic Incantation Bowls in War and in Peace; Neil Brodie
15. Temple Looting in Cambodia: Anatomy of a Statue Trafficking Network; Simon Mackenzie and Tess Davis
16. Something is Confidential in the State of Christie's; Christos
17. Polaroids from the Medici Dossier: Continued Sightings on the Market; David W. J. Gill and Christos Tsirogiannis
18. Illicit Trafficking and Destruction of Cultural Property in Africa; George Abungu
19. Antiquities Crime as a Policy Problem; Lawrence Rothfield
PART IV: THIEF: ART LAW, WAR AND POLICY
20. Nazi-Looted Art from Kyiv Destroyed in East Prussia: New Hope for More Survivors?; Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
21. Surviving War and Peace: the Long Road to Recovering the Malevich Paintings; Howard N. Spiegler
22. What is Due Diligence? Making the Case for a More Responsible Art Market; Christopher A. Marinello and Jerome Hasler
23. Outline of the Benefits Coming from a National Prosecution Service in Cultural Heritage Protection; Paolo Giorgio Ferri
24. A Permanent International Art Crime Tribunal?; Arthur Tompkins
25. Getting Governments to Cooperate against Looting: Insights from the American and British Experience; Asif Efrat