"Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, smuggling, …
"The Many Faces of Art Forgery: From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray provides a broad treatment that delves into historical highlights, philosophical insights, psychological profiles, economic theories, and legal statutes and cases"--. "Forgery is a provocative presence in the …
"Over the last few decades there has been a scandalous increase in the number of forged paintings. In retaliation, there has been a rise in the use, efficiency and ability of scientific techniques to detect these forgeries, The scientist has waged war on the forger. The Scientis…
"Over the last few decades there has been a disconcerting increase in the number of forged paintings. In retaliation, there has been a rise in the use, efficiency and ability of scientific techniques to detect these forgeries. The scientist has waged war on the forger. The Scien…
"In southern China lies Dafen, an urban village that houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the global market, producing an astonishing five million paintings a year. Winnie Won Yin Wong infiltrated this world by f…
"In southern China lies Dafen, an urban village that houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the global market, producing an astonishing five million paintings a year. Winnie Won Yin Wong infiltrated this world by f…
"Wood shows that over the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, emerging replication technologies - such as woodcut, copper engraving, and movable type - altered the relationship between artifacts and time. Mechanization highlighted the dependence of all transmi…
"Wood shows that over the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, emerging replication technologies - such as woodcut, copper engraving, and movable type - altered the relationship between artifacts and time. Mechanization highlighted the dependence of all transmi…
Ten years after the case was closed by the FBI, Ken Perenyi, an artist with an uncanny ability to mimic the work of the old masters, confesses and describes his thirty-year career as a professional art forger.
Art dealer Otto Wacker's 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.
