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The expert versus the object : judging fakes and false attributions in the visual arts
The authenticity of visual art has always commanded the attention of experts, dealers, collectors, and the art-minded public. Is it "real" or "original" is a way of asking what am I buying? What do I own? What am I looking at? And today more sophisticated questions are being aske...
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| Formato: | Online Resource Libro |
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| Idioma: | English |
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New York
: Oxford University Press
, 2004
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| Acceso en liña: | lizenzpflichtig |
| Títulos relacionados: | Erscheint auch als:
Expert versus the object |
| Notas de autor: | edited by Ronald D. Spencer; [foreword by Eugene Victor Thaw] |
| Summary: | The authenticity of visual art has always commanded the attention of experts, dealers, collectors, and the art-minded public. Is it "real" or "original" is a way of asking what am I buying? What do I own? What am I looking at? And today more sophisticated questions are being asked: How is authenticity determined and what weight does this determination have in court? This book of essays proposes to answer those questions. Three lines of inquiry are basic to determining authenticity: a connoisseur's evaluation, historical documentation or provenance, and scientific testing. A |
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| descrición da copia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Descrición Física: | Online Ressource (xviii, 241 p.) ill. |
| ISBN: | 1423720067 9781423720065 9780195147353 0195147359 0195349032 9780195349030 1280532157 9781280532153 |
