Chasing Aphrodite

Jason; Ralph Frammolino Felch

ISBN 10: 0151015015 / ISBN 13: 9780151015016

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-05-24, Boston, 2011

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Third Edition 2011 Very Good- Hardcover Very Good- Dust Jacket Fairly clean Ex-libray copy but ex-library none the less. Look at the Museum trade and quest for stolen and legitamate antiquities. No writibg in book but sticker on spine Nice reading copy. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans for cover and library markings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chasing Aphrodite
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-05-24, Boston
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151015015
• ISBN 13: 9780151015016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good-
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-
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Synopsis

In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? 

The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty’s dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. The outlandish characters and bad behavior could come straight from the pages of a thriller—the wealthy recluse founder, the cagey Italian art investigator, the playboy curator, the narcissist CEO—but their chilling effects on the rest of the art world have been all too real, as the authors show in novelistic detail. 

Fast-paced and compelling, Chasing Aphrodite exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished façade of the museum business.

About the Authors

JASON FELCH is an investigative reporter with the Los Angeles Times. In 2006 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for exposing the role of the J. Paul Getty Museum and other American museums in the black market for looted antiquities. His work has also been honored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Education Writers Association, the National Association of Science Writers, and the Society for Environmental Journalism. He lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife and son.

RALPH FRAMMOLINO reported for nearly 25 years at the Los Angeles Times, where he and former colleague Jason Felch were finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their articles about the J. Paul Getty Museum and looted antiquities. His work has also appeared in the New York Times and the Columbia Journalism Review. Frammolino is now a media consultant for various aid projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, where he trains working journalists on investigative reporting techniques and right to information laws.