Through the use of case examples and careful examination, this
book presents the first interdisciplinary essay collection on the
study of art crime, and its effect on all aspects of the art world.
Contributors discuss art crime subcategories, including vandalism,
iconoclasm, forgery, fraud, peace-time theft, war looting,
archaeological looting, smuggling, submarine looting, and ransom.
The contributors offer insightful analyses coupled with specific
practical suggestions to implement in the future to prevent and
address art crime. This work is of critical importance to anyone
involved in the art world, its trade, study, and security.
Art crime has received relatively little attention from those
who study art to those who prosecute crimes. Indeed, the general
public is not well-aware of the various forms of art crime and its
impact on society at large, to say nothing of museums, history, and
cultural affairs. And yet it involves a multi-billion dollar
legitimate industry, with a conservatively-estimated $6 billion
annual criminal profit. Information about and analysis of art crime
is critical to the wide variety of fields involved in the art trade
and art preservation, from museums to academia, from auction houses
to galleries, from insurance to art law, from policing to security.
Since the Second World War, art crime has evolved from a relatively
innocuous crime, into the third highest-grossing annual criminal
trade worldwide, run primarily by organized crime syndicates, and
therefore funding their other enterprises, from the drug and arms
trades to terrorism. It is no longer merely the art that is at
stake.
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