When Art Isn’t Real

Patrick Degryse • ebook • epub

• Samenvatting
  The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. The authors of this book have decades of experience in this field, working on a range of objects dating from prehistory to the twentieth century. They present seven of the most famous cases from the Getty Kouros to the Turin Shroud – some of which are still contested, and examine how a few words from a connoisseur or scientist can make a virtually valueless object worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.
  
  The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. The authors of this book have decades of experience in this field, working on a range of objects dating from prehistory to the twentieth century. They present seven of the most famous cases from the Getty Kouros to the Turin Shroud - some of which are still contested, and examine how a few words from a connoisseur or scientist can make a virtually valueless object worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Epub
  Auteur : Patrick Degryse
  Bestandstype : epub
  Distributievorm : Ebook (digitaal)
  Aantal pagina's : Afhankelijk van e-reader
  Beveiliging : Geen   Informatie 
  Uitgeverij : Leuven University Press
  ISBN : 9789461664624
  Datum publicatie : 03-2022
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Piltdown Man Chapter 3 The Getty Kouros Chapter 4 Turin Shroud Chapter 5 The Vinland Map Chapter 6 The “Amarna Princess” Chapter 7 Leonardo and the Eye Chapter 8 The Reconstruction of Knossos Chapter 9 Conclusions A Guided Bibliography Glossary
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