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Rescue Artist : A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060531177
ISBN-139780060531171
eBay Product ID (ePID)43892666
Product Key Features
Book TitleRescue Artist : a True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General, Social History
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, History
AuthorEdward Dolnick
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-062060
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsDolnick...writes with a crisp, breezy style that runs with the speed of thieves purloining stolen canvases., "The Rescue Artist is a masterpiece. Engrossing, entertaining, often surreally hilarious." -- --Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers on The Rescue Artist "The narrative's frequent detours to other crimes and engaging escapades...elevate this work above last year's similar The Irish Game." -- --Publishers Weekly "A big shout-out to Edward Dolnick for The Rescue Artist." -- --Geoffrey Jennings, Rainy Day Books, Fairway KS "There has never been a better book on art crime." -- Milton Esterow, ArtNews "An entertaining account of the eternal struggle between high art and low cunning." -- Time magazine "Riveting...fascinating." -- Los Angeles Times "There has never been a better book on art crime." -- ArtNews "Dolnick...writes with a crisp, breezy style that runs with the speed of thieves purloining stolen canvases." -- Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The narrative's frequent detours to other crimes and engaging escapades...elevate this work above last year's similar The Irish Game.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal364.16/2/09481
SynopsisIn the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's The Scream , and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill. In this rollicking narrative, Edward Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Café and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for The Scream will either cap his career and rescue one of the world's best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever., In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's The Scream , and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill. In this rollicking narrative, Edward Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Caf and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for The Scream will either cap his career and rescue one of the world's best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever., In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's The Scream, and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill. In this rollicking narrative, Edward Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Café and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for The Scream will either cap his career and rescue one of the world's best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever., This suspense-filled book tells the true story of the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" from the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway, and the brilliant detective who gets it back. Includes a 16-page b&w photo insert.
LC Classification NumberN8795.D65 2005
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Very interesting. It makes me want to go to the art galleries and view the paintings and how secure they areVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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