Lost art
Shortland, Anja2021
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Countless dollars of art are stolen or looted every year, yet governments often consider art theft a luxury problem. With limited public law enforcement, what prevents thieves, looters and organised criminal gangs from flooding the market with stolen art? Enter the Art Loss Register, a private database dedicated to tracking down stolen artworks. This book is based on 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 and fences end up in court and behind bars.
Main title:
Lost art / Anja Shortland.
Author:
Shortland, Anja, author
Imprint:
London : Unicorn, 2021.
Collation:
208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781913491482 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
364.16287364.1628
Language:
English
BRN:
2531342