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Sacred And Stolen Confessions Of A Museum Director Gary Vikan

Name: Sacred And Stolen Confessions Of A Museum Director Gary Vikan
SKU: BELL-9486898
Price: 31.00 USD
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Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 59.38 MB

Pages: 256

Author: Gary Vikan

ISBN: 9781590794012, 159079401X

Language: English

Year: 2016

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Sacred And Stolen Confessions Of A Museum Director Gary Vikan by Gary Vikan 9781590794012, 159079401X instant download after payment.

Sacred and Stolen is the memoir of an art museum director with the courage to reveal what goes on behind the scenes. Gary Vikan lays bare the messy underbelly of museum life: looted antiquities, crooked dealers, deluded collectors, duplicitous public officials, fakes, inside thefts, bribery, and failed exhibitions. These backstories, at once shocking and comical, reveal a man with a taste for adventure, an eagerness to fan the flames of excitement, and comfort with the chaos that often ensued.
A Minnesota kid who started out as a printer’s devil in his father’s small-town newspaper, Vikan ended up as the director of The Walters Art Museum, a gem of a museum in Baltimore. Sacred and Stolen reveals his quest to bring the “holy” into the museum experience as he struggles to reconcile his passion for acquiring sacred works of art with his suspicion that they were stolen.
The cast of characters in his many adventures include the elegant French oil heiress, Dominique de Menil, the notorious Turkish smuggler, Aydin Dikmen, his slippery Dutch dealer, Michel van Rijn, the inscrutable and implacable Patriarchs of Ethiopia and Georgia, and the charismatic President of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze—along with a mysterious thief of a gorgeous Renoir painting missing from a museum for over sixty years. When the painting suddenly shows up, it’s Vikan who tracks down the culprit.
In his afterword Vikan explains his coming to grips with the realities of art dealing in our present dangerous world that includes the fanatical iconoclasm of the Islamic State. We know of the violent destruction and looting of precious treasures of antiquity and unscrupulous black market art dealers who take advantage of international conflicts to possess them.
Sacred and Stolen is a truly eye-opening account of art dealing in the modern world.