Fake? the Art of Deception

by Mark Jones

Book Overview

What is a fake and why are fakes made? Did the forgers of the Turin Shroud and Piltdown Man have the same motives? Does a famous Vermeer cease to be beautiful when it turns out to be a Van Meegeren? Is the Piranesi Vase an eighteenth-century masterpiece or a faked-up antique? Fakes, argue the contributors to this volume, have always been unjustly neglected, especially given the unparalleled evidence they provide of the values and perceptions of both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520070860
• ISBN13: 9780520070868
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.0" x 11.2"