Fake?
Subtitle: the art of deception
By: edited by Mark Jones with Paul Craddock and Nicolas Barker.
Contributors: Jones, Mark, 1951-; Craddock, P. T.; Barker, Nicolas.; British Museum.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Art -- Forgeries -- Exhibitions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-309) and index.
"First U.S. edition"--T.p. verso.
Catalog of an exhibition at the British Museum.