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False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes

Author Thomas Hoving
Publisher Touchstone
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Author(s)Thomas Hoving
PublisherTouchstone
ISBN / ASIN0684831481
ISBN-139780684831480
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

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Delving into one of the most sacrosanct areas of culture--fine art collecting--Thomas Hoving presents a gallery of art fakes, fakers, and the suckers who fell for the scams. From the shroud of Turin to pre-Colombian pottery, Hoving reveals the biggest, the best, the most embarrassing, and the most costly forgeries in history--many of them unknown until now. photos.