Roger Atwood
STEALING HISTORY:
TOMB RAIDERS, SMUGGLERS, AND THE LOOTING OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
St. Martin’s, 2004.
[364.162 ATWOOD]
Focuses on an incident in 1987 when a group of grave robbers in Peru uncovered
a rich cache of gold & silver artifacts and the looting began.
Russell Chamberlain
LOOT!: THE HERITAGE OF PLUNDER.
Facts on File, 1983.
[709 CHAMBERLAIN]
Describes how the antiquities of Greece, Egypt, and the Third World were
stolen by stronger nations, recounts the acquisitions made by Napoleon and Hitler,
and discusses the ethical questions involved in the ownership of national cultural
treasures
John E. Conklin
ART CRIME.
Praeger, 1994.
[364.16 CONKLIN]
A criminologist looks at the motives and methods of international crime phenomenon
in which museums, dealers, auction houses, corporate collectors, and even the
artists themselves are collaborators
Edward Dolnick
THE RESCUE ARTIST: A TRUE STORY OF ART, THEIVES, AND THE HUNT FOR A MISSING
MASTERPIECE.
HarperCollins, 2005.
[364.16209481 DOLNICK]
An inside look at the art underworld as the world’s greatest art detective
tracks the thieves who stole Edvard Munch's The Scream, from a museum in Oslo.
Matthew Hart
THE IRISH GAME: A TRUE STORY OF CRIME AND ART.
Walker, 2004.
[364.162 HART]
Follows the twists and turns that brought down Dublin gangster Martin Cahill,
who masterminded the heist at Ireland’s Russborough House in 1986.
William H. Honan
TREASURE HUNT: A NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER TRACKS THE QUEDLINBURG HOARD.
Fromm Int’l, 1997.
[364.162 HONAN]
A New York Times reporter becomes involved in the quest to track down a
reliquary stolen from a cave outside Quedlinburg, Germany, when he is tipped
off by a phone call from a German "researcher"
Simon Houpt
MUSEUM OF THE MISSING: A HISTORY OF ART THEFT.
Sterling, 2006.
[364.162 Houpt]
Art theft is big business, right behind drugs and arms trading. And when
a piece of art is stolen, says, Houpt, “we all lose a piece of our common
heritage.” His book offers a fascinating glimpse into the history of modern
art theft.
Theodore Vretton
THE ELGIN AFFAIR: THE ABDUCTION OF ANTIQUITY’S GREATEST TREASURES AND
THE PASSIONS IT AROUSED.
Arcade, 1997.
[733.3 VRETTOS]
Describes the 1800 theft of Greek sculptures from the Parthenon by British
ambassador Lord Elgin, and the long battle between Greece and England over their
ownership.
Peter Watson &
Cecilia Todeschini
THE MEDICI CONSPIRACY: THE ILLICIT JOURNEY OF LOOTED ANTIQUITIES, FROM ITALY’S
TOMB RAIDERS TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST MUSEUMS. PublicAffairs, 2006.
[363.29562 Watson]
Investigative reporter and art crime specialist Watson and researcher Todeschini
chronicle the astonishing exploits of Giacomo Medici, a nefarious Italian antiquities
dealer and mastermind, as they accompany Colonel Roberto Conforti, head of the
Carabinieri Art Squad, over the course of a complicated eight-year investigation.Also
by Peter Watson: The Caravaggio Conspiracy: How Five Art dealers, Four Policemen,
Three Picture Restorers, Two Auction Houses, & a Journalist PLotted to Recover
Some of the World's Most Beautiful Stolen Paintings. (Doubleday, 1984).
ART THEFT IN WORLD WAR II
Kenneth D. Alford
THE SPOILS OF WORLD WAR II: THE AMERICAN MILITARY’S ROLE IN THE STEALING
OF EUROPE’S TREASURES.
Carol, 1994.
[709.4 ALFORD]
Konstantin Akinsha
& Grigoril Kozlov, with Sylvia Hochfield
BEAUTIFUL LOOT: THE SOVIET PLUNDER OF EUROPE’S ART TREASURES.
Random House, 1995.
[709.4309044 AKINSHA]
Hector Feliciano
THE LOST MUSEUM: THE NAZI CONSPIRACY TO STEAL THE WORLD’S GREATEST WORKS
OF ART.
Basic, 1997.
[709.44 FELICIANO]
Peter Harclerode
THE LOST MASTERS: WORLD WAR II AND THE LOOTING OF EUROPE’S TREASUREHOUSES.
Welcome Rain, 2000.
[940.5314 HARCLERODE]
Lynn H. Nicholas
THE RAPE OF EUROPA: THE FATE OF EUROPE’S TREASURES IN THE THIRD REICH
AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
Knopf, 1994.
[709.04 Nicholas]
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