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  • The Devil in the Gallery

    How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World

    by Noah Charney ...
    "It’s an in-depth look at varied time periods and artists, which readers interested in gossip, drama, or art history will enjoy." Library Journal, Starred ReviewScandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don’t they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin.But these potentially disastrous “negatives” ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Art Crime and its Prevention

    A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals

    Edited by Arthur Tompkins ...
    Art Crime and Its Prevention is the definitive handbook on art crime for art-world professionals of all kinds – from the museum, auction house or art-insurance employee to the contemporary gallerist, dealer, art-market student or collector.Written by a range of international experts, the book's territory is broad and includes advice on how to secure art in galleries and private collections; how ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art Thief

    A Novel

    by Noah Charney ...
    Rome: In the small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night.Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, curator Geneviéve Delacloche is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's greatest treasure, White-on-White by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich.London: At the National Gallery of Modern ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Cognition Switch #2

    by Martin Rees, Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, Henry Cowles ...
    Series Book 2 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #2: January 2019Featuring Ideas by:Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stealing the Mystic Lamb

    The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece

    by Noah Charney ...
    Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also the most frequently stolen artwork of all time.Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil painting has been ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Yugoslavia, My Fatherland

    by Goran Vojnović ...
    Translated by Noah Charney ...
    Years after the end of the conflict that tore about the country of Yugoslavia, a man goes in search of this father's true identity. A hard-hitting examination of a generation from the former Yugoslavia that escaped the bullets but not the war. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brushed Aside

    The Untold Story of Women in Art

    by Marina Abramovic, Noah Charney ...
    Discover anew the herstory of art that Publishers Weekly calls "illuminating" and Foreword Reviews calls "spirited" for an enlightening art history read.How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then… eve... ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Bad Blood

    Rivalry and Art History

    by Clayton Schuster ...
    Why is there so much bad blood involved in the stories of artists and their artworks? Immerse yourself in 18 infamous artistic rivalries, dramatized with gripping moments of narrative, to understand how the rivalries that art fans love to gossip about serve a larger purpose in the way cultures approach the idea of art and the artist. Why did Michelangelo loathe Raphael for decades after the latter ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 12-Hour Film Expert

    Everything You Need to Know about Movies

    by Noah Charney, James Charney ...
    The only book you need to become an expert on film history, technique, and appreciation. This "gateway book will deepen readers’ appreciation of milestone movies." (Library Journal**)**If you are looking at this book, then you probably love watching movies and television shows. Who doesn’t? But most of us do so as passive entertainment—to wind down, relax, and escape into alternative worlds. Pay ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The 12-Hour Author

    Everything You Need to Know to Get Published and Become a Successful Writer

    by Noah Charney ...
    Are you interested in getting published and earning money as a writer?Whether your focus is books or articles, there are all manner of tricks of the trade that most writers have to learn the hard way, on their own, through trial and error—if they learn them at all. From how to write a book proposal to pitching to editors, from great openings to how to get paid and read contracts, the logistics of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Accidental Picasso Thief

    The True Story of a Reverse Heist, Outrunning the FBI, and Fleeing the Boston Mob

    by Whit Rummel, Noah Charney ...
    Series series Association for Research into Crimes Against Art
    In 1969, during a Boston snowstorm, a crate containing Pablo Picasso's Portrait of a Woman and a Musketeer vanished from Logan Airport. It should have gone to a Milwaukee gallery-but instead ended up in the closet of Bill Rummel, a young forklift operator.What followed was a stranger-than-fiction chain of events: FBI agents on the hunt, whispers of Whitey Bulger's mob, and a daring “reverse heist” ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Art of Fatherhood

    What Art, Film, Television, and Literature Tell Us about Being a Good Father

    by Noah Charney, Miha Mazzini ...
    Fatherhood is a fundamental aspect of human existence and a central theme in the arts. Yet, depictions of fathers in art have been overshadowed by those of mothers and children. This book explores representations of fathers in visual culture and literature throughout history, from ancient to contemporary times and around the world. It includes a broad definition of fathers, which also covers ... Read more

    $28.39 USD