In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's <em>The Scream</em>, and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill.</p>
In this rollicking narrative, Edward Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Café and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for <em>The Scream</em> will either cap his career and rescue one of the world's best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever.</p>
爱德华·多尔尼克曾为《波士顿环球报》、《大西洋月刊》、《时代杂志》等报纸杂志撰稿,并有《进入伟大的未知世界》以及《睡椅上的疯狂》等多部著作。
我非常喜欢这本书的前半部分,特别是讲到艺术犯罪的操作方式和这个领域发生的奇闻异事的部分,初读起来既新奇又有趣,是一个对大千世界广度爱好者来说的全新视口。叙述的结构大致是以《呐喊》这幅超级名画在挪威失窃继而被希尔等探员追回为主线,当中不断穿插跟艺术犯罪有关的...
评分“名画不过是镶了框的巨额支票”这句话是从书里摘的。 作者爱德华·多尔尼克认为,小偷对博物馆美术馆毫无兴致,除非偷东西的时候。而驱使他们起了这个念头的,除了在黑道里争得荣誉感、在媒体上争得头版头条,或者是用这个作为条件跟政府谈判歪,最大的驱动力就是钱。 梵高...
评分【呐喊】被偷了,在保安的眼皮低下……一个艺术品侦探的真实故事(不能多说,你们自己看,说了就不好玩了)。 另外一本书,也很有纪实风格,艺术品投资人自己揭露曾经参与的艺术品投资的内幕。 但是这些作家都不如丹·布朗,他们揭示真相,而他把谎言讲得跟真的一样,而且更...
评分有趣的一本书,在光合作用发现的。 捉襟见肘的办案经费,一个一脸憨厚的卧底警察,一群其实是粗人而非怪盗基德的艺术品盗窃犯……纪实文学,却比故事好看。
评分一直就对自己无知的领域格外感兴趣。这本书从商品角度讲,排版、纸张都格外令人满意。作为一部记录片写实的作品来说,内容绝对是我们这些非官非贼非艺术家的普通百姓所毫不知晓的。中间名画和名侦探的照片,更是让人充满想象。似一部充满智慧的侦探小说,个人感觉还有点谢尔顿...
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