Females in the Frame - Penelope Jackson

Females in the Frame

Women, Art, and Crime
Buch | Softcover
XV, 222 Seiten
2020 | 2nd ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-44691-8 (ISBN)
26,74 inkl. MwSt

This book is available in audiobook format, narrated by Kerry Fox: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Females-in-the-Frame-Audiobook/B08PC6YSW1?asin=B08PC6YSW1&source_code=ASUOR22212112000M8

This book explores the untold history of women, art, and crime. It has long been widely accepted that women have not played an active role in the art crime world, or if they have, it has been the part of the victim or peacemaker. Women, Art, and Crime overturns this understanding, as it investigates the female criminals who have destroyed, vandalised, stolen, and forged art, as well as those who have conned clients and committed white-collar crimes in their professional occupations in museums, libraries, and galleries. Whether prompted by a desire for revenge, for money, the instinct to protect a loved one, or simply as an act of quality control, this book delves into the various motivations and circumstances of women art criminals from a wide range of countries, including theUK, the USA, New Zealand, Romania, Germany, and France. Through a consideration of how we have come to perceive art crime and the gendered language associated with its documentation, this pioneering study questions why women have been left out of the discourse to date and how, by looking specifically at women, we can gain a more complete picture of art crime history. 

Penelope Jackson is an art historian and curator based in New Zealand. A former gallery director, Jackson is a founding trustee of the New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust. She is the author of Art Thieves, Fakers & Fraudsters: The New Zealand Story (2016) and has contributed to the Journal of Art Crime and Art Crime and its Prevention (2016). Jackson has curated major exhibitions, including: award-winning Corrugations: The Art of Jeff Thomson (2013), The Lynley Dodd Story (2015), An Empty Frame: Crimes of Art in New Zealand (2016) and Katherine Mansfield: A Portrait (2018).

1. Introduction: Writing Alternative Art Histories.- 2. Lady Destroyers.- 3. The Mothers of All Art Crimes.- 4. She Vandals.- 5. The Art of the Con[wo]man.- 6. The Light Fingered.- 7. Naming Rights.- 8. The Professionals.- 9. Afterword: Making a Noise About the Silence.

"I would strongly recommend this book for those interested in art, as well as those with a general interest in cultural history. ... It makes a robust argument for the better appreciation of copies as a field of study, collection, and educated enjoyment." (Rod Thomas, ARCA, art-crime.blogspot.com, February 21, 2023)

“I would strongly recommend this book for those interested in art, as well as those with a general interest in cultural history. … It makes a robust argument for the better appreciation of copies as a field of study, collection, and educated enjoyment.” (Rod Thomas, ARCA, art-crime.blogspot.com, February 21, 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XV, 222 p. 18 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Schlagworte Art crime • criminals • Dealer • Forge • gallery • Gender • History • language • Motherhood • painting • Theft • vandals
ISBN-10 3-030-44691-3 / 3030446913
ISBN-13 978-3-030-44691-8 / 9783030446918
Zustand Neuware
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