Stealing Rodin.

In the style of Exit Through the Gift Shop, STEALING RODIN is a critical and humorous statement about Art and the market around it. The documentary traces the story of Luis Onfray's artistic and criminal act. In 2005, the Palace of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile, hosted a collection by celebrated...

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Online Access:A Kanopy streaming video
Other Authors: Onfray, Luis (Actor)
Format: Video
Language:Spanish
Published:Pragda, 2017.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021.
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Summary:In the style of Exit Through the Gift Shop, STEALING RODIN is a critical and humorous statement about Art and the market around it. The documentary traces the story of Luis Onfray's artistic and criminal act. In 2005, the Palace of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile, hosted a collection by celebrated French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The morning after the exhibit's opening, museum guards were dismayed to find that one of the Rodin pieces had gone missing. This shocking discovery sparked a frantic search involving the museum's staff, and soon the Santiago police. Meanwhile, public curiosity was sparked and the desire to witness the empty pedestal on which the masterpiece should have been made the Rodin collection the most visited exhibition in the history of Chile.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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