Publisher's Synopsis
The Art Thief's Handbook is a collection of popular essays on art crime by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. Informed through scholarship but written in an accessible manner for a general audience, these essays are informative and entertaining, delving into the dark side of the art world. From theft to forgery, from museums to churches, from tomb raiders to illicit antiquities, from heists to cons, The Art Thief's Handbook provides a great introduction and more in-depth look at art crime, in all its aspects. Noah Charney is a professor specializing in the history of art crime and author of more than a dozen critically-acclaimed and best-selling books, including The Art Thief, The Art of Forgery, The Museum of Lost Art and The Collector of Lives, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art. Profits from the sale of this book and others in this series support ARCA's research.
