Plundering Beauty - A History of Art Crime During War

Arthur Tompkins presents examples of art crimes from wars through history, including the Fourth Crusade, the Napoleonic era, the Second World War and modern-day conflicts in Yugoslavia and Iraq.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. Rome; Chapter 2. The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople; Chapter 3. The Thirty Years’ War; Chapter 4. Napoleon; Chapter 5. The First World War; Chapter 6. The Second World War: Western Europe; Chapter 7. The Second World War: Eastern Europe; Chapter 8. Unravelling the Nazi Plunder: The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Officers; Chapter 9. The Yugoslav Wars; Chapter 10. Afghanistan and Iraq; Coda: Iraq and
Syria; Notes; Further Reading; Index

About the author

Judge Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge based in Wellington, New Zealand. He teaches the 'Art in War' component course at the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) annual Postgraduate Certificate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection, based in Umbria, Italy, and was the editor of Art Crime and Its Prevention (Lund Humphries, 2016).

Summary

Arthur Tompkins presents examples of art crimes from wars through history, including the Fourth Crusade, the Napoleonic era, the Second World War and modern-day conflicts in Yugoslavia and Iraq.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Tompkins, Judge Arthur Tompkins
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781848222199
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-219-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; True Crime, ART / History / General, ART / Conservation & Preservation, War Crimes, Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks, Forgery, falsification and theft of artworks