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The many faces of art forgery : from the dark side to shades of gray
\"The Many Faces of Art Forgery: From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray provides a broad treatment that delves into historical highlights, philosophical insights, psychological profiles, economic theories, and legal statutes and cases\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A real van gogh
Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real Van Goghs from the fake ones, and the key question addressed in this book is what may happen to art experts when they publicly voice their opinions on a particular Van Gogh (or not). The story starts with art expert J.B. de la Faille who discovered to his own bewilderment that he had included dozens of fake Van Goghs in his 1928 catalogue raisonné. He wanted to set the record straight, but met with strong resistance from art dealers, collectors, critics, politicians and others, marking the beginning of a fierce clash of interests that had seized the art world for many decades of the twentieth century.
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Art detective : spot the difference!
Presents reproductions of famous art works alongside \"forgeries.\" Readers are asked to play detective as they examine each painting closely, looking for the differences, while a small cartoon sleuth leads them through the paintings, uncovering technical and historical details that enhance readers' appreciation and knowledge.
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Italian Forgers
Italian Forgers takes an
unorthodox approach to the fascinating topic of art forgery,
focusing not on art forgery per se, but on the major forgery
scandals that shifted the Italian art market in response to
constant, and often intense, demand for Italian objects.
By focusing on power dynamics that both precipitated forgery
scandals and forged Italian cultural identities, this book connects
the debates and discussions about three well-known Italian
forgers-Giovanni Bastianini, Icilio Joni, and Alceo Dossena-to
anchor and investigate the mechanics of the Italian art market from
unification through the fascist era.
Carol Helstosky examines foreign accounts of transactions and
Italian writings about the art market. The actions and words of
Italian dealers illustrate how the Italian art and antiquities
market was an undeniably modern industry, on par with tourism in
terms of its contribution to the Italian economy and to
understandings of Italian identity. These accounts also reveal how
dealers, artists, go-betweens, guides, and restorers worked to not
only meet the intense demand for Italian products but also to
develop highly sophisticated business practices to maintain
financial stability and respond to shifts in demand consciously
(but not always conscientiously).
Italian Forgers weaves a compelling narrative about the
history of Italian identity, forgery, and the value of the past. As
a result, Helstosky brings historical perspective to the study of
art forgery and art fraud. She reveals how historical circumstances
and structural imbalances of cultural power shaped the market for
art and antiquities and amplified incidents of art deception and
forgery scandals.
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Literary hoaxes : an eye-opening history of famous frauds
The ultimate reader's-guide to the works that fooled publishers, readers, and critics the world over--from Dionysius the Renegade to modern publishing pranks such as the Hitler Diaries.
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When Art isn't Real
How an initially valueless object becomes worth hundreds
of millions. And vice versa. The art world is a
multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a
regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with
one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile
objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may
have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored
or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is
called on to settle a dispute. The authors of this book have
decades of experience in this field, working on a range of objects
dating from prehistory to the twentieth century. They present seven
of the most famous cases from the Getty Kouros to the Turin Shroud
- some of which are still contested, and examine how a few words
from a connoisseur or scientist can make a virtually valueless
object worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.
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