Bibliograph

Fake?, the art of deception, edited by Mark Jones with Paul Craddock and Nicolas Barker

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Fake?, the art of deception, edited by Mark Jones with Paul Craddock and Nicolas Barker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-309) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fake?

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Responsibility statement

edited by Mark Jones with Paul Craddock and Nicolas Barker

Sub title

the art of deception

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

Table Of Contents

Why fakes? / Mark Jones -- Forging the past / David Lowenthal -- Textual forgery / Nicholas Barker -- What is a fake? -- Rewriting history -- The limits of belief : religion, myth and science -- Faking in the East -- Faking in Europe 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

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