Timm Tobias - Art And Crime - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks and billionaires collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud and malfeasance into the art world - - everything from 'artnapping in which an artwork is held hostage and only returned for a ransom to forgery and tax fraud. However the extent of the economic and cultural damage that results from criminality in the global art scene rarely comes to light. The stories of high - stakes brazen art crimes told by art experts Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm are by turns thrilling disturbing and unbelievable (the imagination for using art to commit crimes seems boundless). The authors also provide a well - founded analysis of what needs to change in the art market and at museums.
Title: Art And Crime
Author(s): Timm Tobias
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644213261
Pages: 304 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 5/14/2024
Category: Forgery, Falsification & Theft Of Artworks