Females in the Frame Women, Art, and Crime /

• Main Author: Jackson, Penelope (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching.; Fine arts.; Culture.; Gender.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies.; Fine Arts.; Culture and Gender.; Crime and Society.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Writing Alternative Art Histories
• 2. Lady Destroyers
• 3. The Mothers of All Art Crimes
• 4. She Vandals
• 5. The Art of the Con[wo]man
• 6. The Light Fingered
• 7. Naming Rights
• 8. The Professionals
• 9. Afterword: Making a Noise About the Silence.