That's a very interesting book I found - it's title 'The Art of Stealing Art' is impossible to resist. Not that I want to learn how to steal art, mind you, just that all great and valuable arts in any form, privately owned or for public viewing in museums, are usually very securely guarded by all variety of ways and means. I have always been quite intrigued how any thief could even dream of stealing some, let alone actually doing it; more amazingly still, succeeded in getting them right under the watchful beady eyes of armed security guards, plus ultra-high-tech protection systems.
The book by Sharon Waxman, who has investigated the hidden trama of the art work that housed in western museums were looted from their countries of origin. Half journalistic reportting, half historic chronicle, this book can be obtained from Turner, 25€.
It tells also the murky and underhanded feat of the icons like the marble of the Parthenon (temple to the goddess Athena located on the Acropolis in the Athens, Greece), the obelisks (tall four-sided stone pillar tapering to a pyramidal top) of Luxor, or the bust of Nefertiti (1372 - 1350 B.C.) Queen of ancient Egypt and wife of Akhenaten, father of Tutankhamen.
Doesn't it sound interesting and intriguing to you?
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