The Library
Below is a list of books and journals that the Center for Art Law compiles in our quest to keep track of the art law publications and relevant scholarship.
If you are working on a new title, or your book is already out, and you would like to have it included in the Repository, please send us information about it (Title, Author/Editor(s), Date of Publication; ISBN, short summary, link to your publisher/distributor).
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International Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage
“The world’s cultural heritage is under threat from war, illicit trafficking, social and economic upheaval, unregulated excavation and neglect. Over a period of almost fifty years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has adopted five international conventions that attempt to protect this cultural heritage. This book comprehensively and critically considers these five UNESCO cultural heritage conventions. The book looks at the conventions in the context of recent events that have exposed the dangers faced by cultural heritage, including the destruction of cultural heritage sites in Iraq and the looting of the Baghdad museum, the destruction the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, the salvage of artefacts from the RMS Titanic and the illicit excavation and trade in Chinese, Peruvian and Italian archaeological objects.
As the only existing work to consider all five of the cultural heritage conventions adopted by UNESCO, the book acts as an introduction to this growing area of international law. However, the book does not merely describe the conventional principles and rules, but, critically evaluates the extent to which these international law principles and rules provide an effective and coherent international law framework for the protection of cultural heritage. It is suitable not only for those schooled in the law, but also for those who work with cultural heritage in all its manifestations seeking a broad but critical consideration of this important area of international law.”
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Artifact War
“An archaeology professor and his students go undercover to stop ISIS from trafficking Syrian antiquities, only to uncover a web of terror, corporate corruption, and the sale of illegal artifacts in the most shocking places.”
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The Painter and the Thief
“An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full-time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.”
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The Gallerist
“A gallerist, driven by desperation, hatches a scheme to sell a dead guy at Art Basel Miami.”
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Elephants & Squirrels
“A Sri Lankan artist and the chief of the indigenous Wanniyala-Aetto demand the return of ancestral remains and artifacts from Swiss museums – confronting the country with its hidden colonial past.”
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Books Reviews
Book Review: “Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of…
Book Review: “All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art” (2024)
Book Review: Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger (2012) by Ken Perenyi
Book Review: “Art & Crime” (2022) by Stefan Koldenhoff & Tobias Timm, eng. ed.
Book Review: “Museum Administration: Law and Practice” by Walter Lehmann (2022)
Book Review: “Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market,” Sharon Hecker and Peter J. Karol, eds.…
Book Review: The Art Collecting Legal Handbook, Bruno W. Boesch And Massimo Sterpi, eds. (3rd ed.,…
Book Review: “Lost Art: The Art Loss Register Casebook Vol I” (2021) by Anja Shortland
Book Review: “The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why…
Art Law Journals
Book Review: “Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime” (2019) by Penelope Jackson
Book Review: “A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law” (2018)
Book Review: “Hitler’s Last Hostages” (2019)
Book Review: “Art and Modern Copyright” (2018)
Book Review: “Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime” (2019)
Book Review: “Art Law and the Business of Art” (2019)
Book Review: “Artist, Authorship & Legacy: A Reader” (2018)
Book Review: “The Bouvier Affair: A True Story” (2019)
Book Review: Joan Kee, “Models of Integrity” (2019)
Book Review: “A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle over Nazi-Looted Art”(2017)
Book Review: “Art Law: A Concise Guide for Artists, Curators, and Art Educators”(2016)
Book Review: “Art and Business: Transactions in Art & Cultural Property” (2016)
Book Review: “Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present” (2016)
Book Review: “Fair and just solutions?” (2015)
Book Review: “Visual Arts and the Law: A Handbook for Professionals” (2013)
Book Review: Elizabeth T. Russell’s “Arts Law Conversations”
All Things Come in Threes: Hope reviews Three Recent Publications on Art Forgery
Pitching an idea to e-Textbook Publishers: Trademarks through NY Restaurants
Art Theft – A Sexy Crime?
