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Lost Art

By Anja Shortland

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Lost Art

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A fascinating guide to the dark side of the global art market.

Valuable works of art are stolen or looted every year, yet many governments consider art theft a luxury problem. With limited oversight, what prevents thieves, looters, and organized criminal gangs from flooding the market with stolen art? How can victims of theft get justice? And what happens if the legal definition of a good title is at odds with what is morally right?

Enter the Art Loss Register, a private database dedicated to tracking down stolen artworks. Blocking the sale of disputed artworks creates a space for private resolutions--often amicable and sometimes entertainingly adversarial. This book presents ten cases from the Art Loss Register's archive, showing how restitutions were negotiated, how priceless objects were retrieved from the economic underworld, and how thieves end up in court and behind bars.
Product details
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2022-02-01
Publication Date:
2021-06-21
Publisher:
Unicorn Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
191349148X
ISBN13:
9781913491482
Weight:
1134 g
Height:
241 cm
Width:
165 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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