False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes

Name: False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes
Author: Thomas Hoving
ISBN: 9780684831480

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.