About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
George H.O. Abungu, Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants, Kenya. Stefano Alessandrini, Specialist Consultant to the Ministero per i Beni Culturali and the Advocate General Maurizio Fiorilli, Italy. Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, New York County District Attorney's Office, USA. Toby J.A. Bull, Hong Kong Police Force, Hong Kong SAR Neil Brodie, University of Glasgow, UK. Duncan Chappell, Australian Institute of Criminology Noah Charney, Association for Research into Crimes against Art Simon A. Cole, Newkirk Center for Science and Society, USA. Tess Davis, University of Glasgow, UK. Asif Efrat, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel Paolo Girogio Ferri, Former Italian State Prosecutor David Gill, University Campus Suffolk, UK. Blake Gopnik, Art Critic Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Harvard University, USA. Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield Jerome Hasler, Art Recovery Group International Charles Hill, Formerly London. Metropolitan Police, UK. Saskia Hufnagel, Queen Mary University London, UK. Martin Kemp, University of Oxford, UK. John Kerr, University of Roehampton, UK. Thierry Lenain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Simon Mackenzie, University of Glasgow, UK. Christopher A. Marinello, Art Recovery Group International Erik Nemeth, Independent Scholar Vernon Rapley, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK. Lawrence Rothfield, University of Chicago, USA. Laurie W. Rush, US. Army Francesco Rutelli, Associazione Priorita' Cultura, Italy. Howard Spiegler, Herrick, Feinstein's International Art Law Group Arthur Tompkins, District Court Judge, New Zealand. Christos Tsirogiannis, University of Glasgow, UK. Bill Wei, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.
Review :
'This remarkable anthology appears just when it is most needed, showing, from a broad variety of perspectives, that criminal acts against works of art and architecture looting, vandalism, iconoclasm, illicit trade exert profound effects on individual human beings and on civil society. A riveting rogues' gallery: passive-aggressive art forgers, brutal religious iconoclasts, Napoleon, and the swindlers who bottle sugar water as wine in China, matches wits against a colorful gathering of heroes, from police officers to art historians to the former Mayor of Rome. A fascinating, appalling, and timely discussion.' - Ingrid D. Rowland, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, USA 'This riveting book provides the inside-story on a range of art crimes, from the relationship between looted antiquities and terrorism to the most recent developments concerning Nazi looted art to wine fraud in China, among other "toxic" objects. The contributors hail from diverse backgrounds, but are united in their painstaking research and their search for reform-minded responses to the myriad challenges concerning cultural heritage. This book is essential for scholars, collectors, and anyone who cares about cultural property.' - Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul Professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College, USA
