Overview
- Available as an audiobook from audible.co.uk
- Marks the first book to examine women art criminals
- Explores how art crimes committed by women differ in motivation, scale, and results when compared with men
- Catalogues art crimes under familiar tropes such as vandals and thieves, but also as mothers and professionals
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About this book
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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Females in the Frame
Book Subtitle: Women, Art, and Crime
Authors: Penelope Jackson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44692-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44691-8Published: 17 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44692-5Published: 16 May 2020
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 222
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Audio-Visual Culture, Arts, Crime and Society, Gender Studies