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Fake? : the art of deception / edited by Mark Jones with Paul Craddock and Nicolas Barker.
- Title
- Fake? : the art of deception / edited by Mark Jones with Paul Craddock and Nicolas Barker.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.
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- Description
- 312 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
- Subject
- Art > Forgeries > Exhibitions
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- "First U.S. edition"--T.p. verso.
- Catalog of an exhibition at the British Museum.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-309) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- What is a fake? -- Rewriting history -- The limits of belief : religion, magic, myth and science -- Faking in the East -- Faking in Europe in from the Renaissance to the 18th century -- The 19th century : the great age of faking -- Faking in the 20th century -- The art and craft of faking : copying, embellishing and transforming / edited by Paul Craddock -- The scientific detection of fakes and forgeries / edited by Paul Craddock and Sheridan Bowman -- The limits of expertise.
- ISBN
- 0520070860
- 0520070879 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^89052107^
- OCLC
- 22279285
- SCSB-9976654
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library