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Art forgery : the history of a modern obsession
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ISBN: 9781861898500 1861898509 Year: 2011 Publisher: London: Reaktion books,

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In this volume, Thierry Lenain charts the changing status of art forgery from the time of its appearance in the Renaissance--when it was initially hailed as a true artistic feat--to its condemnation as the art crime par excellence. Rather than suggesting new methods of detection, it offers a genealogy of faking, along with an examination of the anxious, even neurotic reactions triggered in the modern world by its occurrence

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