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Covering key aspects of provenance research for the international
art market, this accessible publication, co-published with the
International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), explores a range
of themes including challenges and best practice to considerations
specific to Nazi looted art and the trade in illicit antiquities.
Provenance research is a crucial component of any art-market
transaction. Without a provenance it is often difficult to
establish a work's authenticity, its true value or who has legal
title. Whether buying, selling or simply maintaining an artwork in
either a private or a public collection, the days when a blind eye
could be turned to the history (or the lack of a known history) of
a work have long gone. Proper, thorough and effective provenance
research is the minimum required and demanded in today's art world
- a world that is increasingly recognising the need for greater and
more effective self-regulation in the face of fakes, forgeries and
challenges to ownership or authenticity that are now commonplace.
Provenance Research Today is essential reading for a broad
audience, from those studying to become part of the art world or
professionals starting a career in provenance research, to
collectors or would-be collectors, dealers, galleries, auction
houses, police and art lawyers.
The roll-call of wars down the centuries is paralleled by an
equally extensive narrative of the theft, destruction, plundering,
displacement and concealing of some of the greatest works of art
during those conflicts - a story that is expertly told in this
original publication. From the many wars of Classical Antiquity,
through the military turning points and detours of the Fourth
Crusade, the Thirty Years' War, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
France, the First and Second World Wars, and then onwards to the
ongoing contemporary conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the history
of art crime in times of war contains myriad fascinating and often
little-known stories of the fate of humankind's greatest works of
art. Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War charts
the crucial milestones of art crimes spanning two thousand years.
The works of art involved have fascinating stories to tell, as
civilisation moves from a simple and brutal 'winner takes it all'
attitude to the spoils of war, to contemporary understanding, and
commitment to, the idea that our artistic heritage truly belongs to
all humankind.
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