Konst: förfalskningar & stölder

From the accidental to the purposeful, the innocent to the brazen, discover all the ways famous artists have begged and borrowed their way to greatness.  ‘Good artists borrow, …

A collection of forty-five true-crime stories about the visual arts in Australia: art theft, art forgery, art censorship, art vandalism, and protest art. The title comes from the …

In The Optickal Illusion, Rachel Halliburton’s meticulous recreation of Georgian society reveals the sordid details of a genuine scandal that deceived the British Royal Academy. …

The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 …

Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and with …

From the flamboyant preacher accused of forgery to the fourteen year old burned at the stake for coining, the eighteenth century was rife with financial crime. This book outlines …

Gurlitts "Schatz" ist eine Kunstsammlung, die ob ihrer Größe beeindruckt. Über 1200 Werke der bildenden Kunst, das stolze Erbe seines Vaters Hildebrand Gurlitt, lagerte Cornelius …

Während der Zeitgeist einmal mehr nach Utopia entwischt, betrachtet Roger Scruton die sitzengelassene Gegenwart: in zwölf Essays denkt er nach übers Regieren, Bauen und Tanzen, …

An illuminating exploration of the relationship between the restitution of looted art, global status, and the international construction of national cultural heritage.Why is art …

This book offers a clear, accessible account of the American litigation over the restitution of works of art taken from Jewish families during the Holocaust. For the past two …