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312 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520070868
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 maste...
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312 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520070868
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 maste...