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  • Provenance Research Today

    Principles, Practice, Problems

    Covering key aspects of provenance research for the international art market, this accessible publication, co-published with the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), explores a range of themes including challenges and best practice to considerations specific to Nazi looted art and the trade in illicit antiquities.Provenance research is a crucial component of any art-market transaction ... Read more

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  • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

    Series series Campus History
    For many years the residents of Southwestern Illinois lacked convenient, affordable access to higher education. To address this situation, Southern Illinois University opened residence centers at the former Shurtleff College in Alton and in East St. Louis in 1957. Enrollment at the two residence centers during 1957-1958 exceeded all expectations, and continued to increase dramatically. In 1960, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crime and Art

    Sociological and Criminological Perspectives of Crimes in the Art World

    Edited by Naomi Oosterman, Donna Yates ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume brings together work by authors who draw upon sociological and criminological methods, theory, and frameworks, to produce research that pushes boundaries, considers new questions, and reshape the existing understanding of "art crimes", with a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and novel theory application. Criminologists and sociologists are poorly represented in academic ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • The Market for Mesoamerica

    Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities

    Edited by Cara G. Tremain, Donna Yates ...
    Series series Maya and Mesoamerican Studies
    Discussions on the illicit trafficking of precolonial cultural heritage itemsPre-Columbian artifacts are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these items as public, private, and digital sales proliferate. This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • 50 Dark Destinations

    Crime and Contemporary Tourism

    From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Real, Recent, or Replica

    Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration

    Series series Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2022Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materialsReal, Recent, or Replica: Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration is the first book-length study of its kind to highlight the increasing commodification of Caribbean ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Trafficking Culture

    New Directions in Researching the Global Market in Illicit Antiquities

    Trafficking Culture outlines current research and thinking on the illicit market in antiquities. It moves along the global trafficking chain from ‘source’ to ‘market’, identifying the main roles and routines involved. Using original research, the authors explore the dynamics of this ‘grey’ market, where legal and illegal goods are mixed and conflated. It compares and contrasts this illicit trade ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Art Crime in Context

    Edited by Naomi Oosterman, Donna Yates ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers worldwide. Yet iconoclastic erasures of the past date back at least to the mid-1300s BCE, during the Amarna Period of ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty. Far more damage to the past has been inflicted by natural disasters, looters, and public works. Art historian ... Read more

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  • Designing Disorder

    Experiments and Disruptions in the City

    Rethinking the open cityPlanners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed?Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Evil Paradises

    Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

    Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Maya

    Lost Civilizations

    Series Book 15 - Lost Civilizations
    The Maya reveals how this ancient civilization – its buildings, ideas, objects and identities – has been perceived, portrayed and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Megan E. O’Neil summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the Preclassic period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the ... Read more

    $22.09 USD