Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781644213261 |
ISBN10: | 1644213265 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 304 pages |
Size: | 204x153 mm |
Weight: | 368 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 1 |
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Category:
Art And Crime
The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Date of Publication: 4 May 2024
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The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud and malfeasance into the art world--everything from 'artnapping,' in which an artwork is held hostage and only returned for a ransom, to forgery and tax fraud. However, the extent of the economic and cultural damage that results from criminality in the global art scene rarely comes to light. The stories of high-stakes, brazen art crimes told by art experts Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm are by turns thrilling, disturbing, and unbelievable (the imagination for using art to commit crimes seems boundless). The authors also provide a well-founded analysis of what needs to change in th