Art Forgery
Subtitle: the history of a modern obsession
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781861898500
Description: In this volume, Thierry Lenain charts the changing status of art forgery from the time of its appearance in the Renaissance--when it was initially hailed as a true artistic feat--to its condemnation as the art crime par excellence. Rather than suggesting new methods of detection, it offers a genealogy of faking, along with an examination of the anxious, even neurotic reactions triggered in the modern world by its occurrence.
Table of contents: title: The symptoms of an obsession; title: Before the age of art forgery; title: Before the age of the obsession with art forgery; title: Art forgery as the connoisseur's nightmare; title: Conclusion : Fakes and the end of the world