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Art theft has risen from an occasional event involving the trophies of the wealthy and elite, into a multi-billion-dollar annual criminal industry, run almost entirely by organized crime groups, and a significant funding source for terrorism. It has been listed among the highest-grossing criminal trades worldwide. When ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art) began, the media and the general public knew very little about art crime. Thanks in part to its efforts, the world is better-informed than ever, but there is still much to surprise and engage, and the stories of art crime never fail to intrigue. The book is organized into five parts: ?Fraud and Forgery ?Law, Policing, and Policy ?Art, Crime, and Popular Culture ?Theft and Security, and ?War, Conflict, and Art. This book is the latest on art crime by the founder of ARCA, Dr. Noah Charney,widely considered the world’s leading authority on the history of art crime. His work on the subject has been included in his best-selling, Pulitzer-nominated books and articles for major publications, including The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Observer, Salon and many others.

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Forgers and Thieves: The Shadowlands of Art Crime by Noah Charney is a masterful exploration of the lurid underbelly of the art world that intelligently weaves a bricolage of breathtaking case studies and insightful commentary. Structured across and within five interrelated themes that range from authenticity to popular culture, and conflict to the law, Charney authoritatively integrates a variety of fascinating topics into a suspenseful matrix of criminality. Within this, he confidently surveys subjects as poignant and diverse as Napoleon's insatiable desire for cultural plunder to Banksy's novel shredding device, which cements this book is an essential read for anyone interested in the shadows loitering behind the canvas.

Forgers and Thieves: The Shadowlands of Art Crime by Noah Charney is a masterful exploration of the lurid underbelly of the art world that intelligently weaves a bricolage of breathtaking case studies and insightful commentary. Structured across and within five interrelated themes that range from authenticity to popular culture, and conflict to the law, Charney authoritatively integrates a variety of fascinating topics into a suspenseful matrix of criminality. Within this, he confidently surveys subjects as poignant and diverse as Napoleon's insatiable desire for cultural plunder to Banksy's novel shredding device, which cements this book is an essential read for anyone interested in the shadows loitering behind the canvas. --Gareth Fletcher, Director of Art and Technology, Sotheby's Institute of Art

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Noah Charney, PhD, is internationally best-selling author of more than twenty books, translated into fourteen languages, including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Museum of Lost Art, which was the finalist for the 2018 Digital Book World Award. He is professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, American University of Rome and University of Ljubljana.

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