False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes
by Hoving, Thomas
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684811340
- ISBN 13
- 9780684811345
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 366 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Fakebusters, fakers, and how to tell a fake; The giddy ancient world; The shrouded Middle Ages; Tricks of the Renaissance and Shams of the Baroque; Victorian shenanigans; The golden age of fakes--now!; My early experiences; Young at the game; A real pro; Busting Wolfgang; Fakes by the ton; If a fake is so good that it fools all the experts, then .; Has any faker fooled them all?; Deep suspicions; The pseudo-fakebusters; "Guardi is still alive"; The "fhaker" with Chutzpah; The curious spurious Kouros; Con Brio.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 068995
- Title
- False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes
- Author
- Hoving, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0684811340
- ISBN 13
- 9780684811345
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Museums; Art Market; Art Crime;
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