Art Crime in Context

Naomi Oosterman, Donna Yates

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783031140839
• eBook ISBN: 9783031140846
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Law

This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime. Drawn from a diverse group of researchers and professionals, the work presented explores contemporary conceptualisations of art crime within broader contexts. In this volume, we see 'art' in its usual forms for art crime scholarship: in paintings and antiquities. However, we also see art in fossils and in violins, chairs and jewellery, holes in the ground and even in the institutions meant to protect any, or all, of the above. And where there is art, there is crime. Chapters in this volume, alternatively, zoom in on specific objects, on specific locations, and on specific institutions, considering how each interact with the various conceptions of crime that exist in those contexts. This volume challenges the boundaries of what we understand as "art and heritage crimes" and displays that both art, and criminality related to art, is creative and unpredictable.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Assay-ssination
• Design Crime in Context
• The Evolution of the Belgian Art and Antiques Unit
• Fossil Trafficking, Fraud, and Fakery
• Illicit Excavations and Trade in Antiquities
• New Security Challenges at Museums and Historic Sites: The Case of Spain
• Revisiting the Looting of Site Q Through Lidar
• Securing Borders and Restraining the Illegal Movement of Cultural Property to, from, and within, the Island of Ireland
• Stealing Heritage in Canada
• The Theft of Your Soulmate
• UNESCO Emergency Response “First-Aid” Heritage Interventions in Syria During Armed Conflict
• Yellow Journalism
• Correction to: Illicit Excavations and Trade in Antiquities