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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
xvii, 598 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations; maps ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the lesser-known effort by an Allied division to find and secure European art that had been looted by the Nazis, outlining how they risked their lives and raced against time with limited supplies and scraps of information.
62) The Duke
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 321 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself, was obsessed with art--in particular, the aesthetic of a purified regime, scoured of 'degenerate' influences that characterized Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. When they came to power in 1933, Hitler and Goebbels set their aesthetic vision into motion and removed degenerate art from German life: artists fled the country; museums were purged;...
65) The frame-up
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A magically gifted art forger, Dani Poissant, the daughter and former accomplice of the world's most famous art thief whom she betrayed, must assemble her estranged mother's old crew to pull off a once-in-a-lifetime heist and discovers there's far more at stake in this job than she ever realized.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
xvi, 473 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command--Provided by the publisher.
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. He becomes the subject of her new work, and even in separation, their relationship grows morphing from victim to thief to artist to muse, and more.
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