There's a Criminal Touch to Art
How Ulay Stole Hitler's Favorite Painting and Redefined Performance Art
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 April 2026
- ISBN 9798765163047
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Weight 504 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 22 bw images 700
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Short description:
The definitive book on the theft of Hitler's favorite painting from the Neue Nationalgalerie and its importance to the history of art theft as well as the history of art.
MoreLong description:
On December 12, 1976, German conceptual artist Ulay stole Hitler's favorite painting from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It was art theft as conceptual artwork. He hung the painting on the wall of a working-class immigrant family's home, then phoned the museum to let them know where they could retrieve it. Told from three perspectives, this unique and groundbreaking book tells the complete story of this art theft and explores what made Ulay's iconic artistic action one of the most famous performance artworks in history. While Ulay passed away in 2020, he recorded his own first-person account of the action in conversation with art historian Noah Charney, allowing readers to engage with a never-before-seen narrative of the theft in Ulay's own words. The theft as artwork was conceived and undertaken with the help of Ulay's partner at the time, Marina Abramovic, who is among the most famous living artists in the world. Her account of the action will follow Ulay's in this book. Finally, Noah Charney will contextualize Ulay and Abramovic's artistic action within the history of art as well as highlight this fascinating incident's importance to the history of art theft.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. There's a Criminal Touch to Art
2. Ulay and Abramovic Before the Theft
3. Ulay on the Action
4. Abramovic on the Action
5. Theft as Art, Art as Theft
6. The Double Theft Coda
