- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY); First Printing edition (28 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1895892791
- ISBN-13: 978-1402728297
- ASIN: 1402728298
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 21.1 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 843,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Absorbing Overview
30 Mar 2007
Format:Hardcover
I work for a global insurance broker with an international art practice that insures many of the world's great museums. I am also an avid art collector. Unlike Christian and Doomjesse, I found this book very useful for the opposite reasons. Personally, I found the "breezy" style of writing a pleasant change from the scholarly style of most art books I read. This is a great overview that anyone can understand. The illustrations are wonderful. We need more books on art that entertain and perhaps, for the novice, stimulate further interest in a subject. While it is a valid criticism to say that this book is not a comprehensive history, I came away wanting to know more and I can talk to my associates in the art practice in a more educated manner.
27 of 31 people found the following review helpful
A nice beginner
13 Nov 2006
Format:Hardcover
This is a nice beginner. It doesn't give an in-depth story of most crimes except the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum theft. The author seems mostly interested in paintings (though a quick mention of a few sculpture thefts is included). It barely covers any thefts in Africa, Asia (excluding Russia), or Latin America. So basically you're left with a beginners text on American and European museum thefts.
On the plus side it is well laid out with lots of pictures including some full page pictures of missing art. Overall, it's a pretty coffee table book that most people can easily read. I just wanted a little more depth.
On the plus side it is well laid out with lots of pictures including some full page pictures of missing art. Overall, it's a pretty coffee table book that most people can easily read. I just wanted a little more depth.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Notes for the "Art Thief"
7 Jan 2008
Format:Hardcover
This books seems to serve as the underlying notes for the novel and just published book, "The Art Thief", by Noah Charney, which is a very twisty and complicated "Who Done It" about multiple art thefts.
This one is an interesting read. However, I would leave "The Art Thief" on the shelf for someone else to steal.
This one is an interesting read. However, I would leave "The Art Thief" on the shelf for someone else to steal.
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