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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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The Mastermind
“In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.”
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Le festin du Reich: Le pillage de la France occupée
“Pendant quatre ans la France servit de plat de résistance au festin du Reich. Toutes les administrations, tous les services allemands se livrèrent à un pillage inégalé. Heureux comme des dieux païens, les Allemands puisèrent dans les richesses du pays. Vivres, denrées, produits finis, oeuvres d’art, machines, minerais, or, argent, diamants, tout ce qui pouvait l être était entassé dans des trains et des camions à destination de l’Allemagne. L’addition de tous ces pillages équivaut à plus de mille milliards d’euros.Où est passé cet argent ? Pourquoi n’a-t-il pas été restitué ? Au terme d’une longue enquête les auteurs démontent avec minutie la formidable machine à piller des nazis. Une oeuvre unique sur un sujet que l’on croyait épuisé, bourrée de révélations arrachées à des fonds d’archives peu ou pas exploités.Le Festin du Reich éclaire le rôle de personnages hauts en couleur oubliés de l’histoire et de la justice, dévoile des réseaux insoupçonnés et troubles. Pour la première fois un lien direct apparaît entre la mise à sac de la France et l Holocauste.Des enquêtes des services secrets alliés, étouffées depuis soixante ans, conduisent à s’interroger sur l’économie mondiale d’aujourd’hui. Dans quelle mesure découle-t-elle de la « nouvelle » donne économique nazie des années 1940 ? L’étude de ces dossiers révèle certaines indulgences coupables mais surtout l’importance du rôle joué en coulisse par une partie de l’administration américaine dans le pillage de la France.En 1945 l’épuration économique de la société française achoppe sur la question des élites, empêchant l’étude détaillée des mécanismes de pillage de la France occupée. Pour la première fois cette étude est entreprise ici.”
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Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
“Each generation of experts believes its own taste is the last word. As the author writes, “People are inclined to view past changes in taste as unique misjudgments that will not happen again…. How unthinking, how stupid, they think, not realizing that the pattern has been repeated again and again in the past and will be in the future. We now recognize that the process is a continual one. Each past canon was established for good reason; there are no mistakes, there is only history. Many of the favored artists of any period including our own will drop from favor, something that art dealers never tell their clients, or museum curators their boards.” Stebbins describes the taste and outlook of each generation through his extensive research on the critics, museum activities, and the art market of each era.”
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The Art Angle: Art World Infamy
Art World Infamy is a special series from the team behind The Art Angle, investigating the scandals and schemes that have rocked the art world.
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The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property: Saving the World’s Heritage
“Renowned for their rigorous investigative approach, the dedicated officers of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property (Carabinieri TPC) have recovered thousands of objects and built legal cases resulting in high-profile repatriations of cultural property. Their actions have effectively changed an art market that previously depended upon theft and criminal behaviour. Italy is a nation that greatly values its ancient past alongside its artistic present, and it is this appreciation that has led to the creation of the world’s premier police force dedicated to law enforcement in the arts, heritage, and archaeology. As the TPC’s dedicated officers work to protect every aspect of Italy’s rich cultural heritage, their organisation, training, approach, missions, and successes offer valuable lessons for all who share the goal of protecting and recovering cultural property.”
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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?
