Fakes Lies And Forgeries

Author : Sheridan Libraries,Neil Weijer,Walter Stephens,Janet E. Gomez,John Hoffmann
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 098380866X

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Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries by Sheridan Libraries,Neil Weijer,Walter Stephens,Janet E. Gomez,John Hoffmann Pdf

In addition to providing a checklist of 70 treasures from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, this beautifully-illustrated volume includes five essays that explore the phenomenon of forgery as a creative literary form and provide an interesting and informative sense of the broader collection. With nearly 1,700 individual items, the Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of books and manuscripts of forgery in the world. Highlights include editions of Jesus' posthumous "Letter from Heaven," eyewitness accounts of the Fall of Troy, annotated books from Shakespeare's personal library, Alpine inscriptions recording Noah's settlement of Vienna after the Flood, and a first-hand account of the discovery of Homer's tomb. The collection was assembled over a 50-year period and acquired by the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University in 2011. Exhibition: Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts, Baltimore, USA (05.10.2014 - 01.02.2015).

Author : Ken Walton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arts
ISBN : 1416907114

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Fake by Ken Walton Pdf

In a riveting narrative shaded with honesty and regret, an Internet fraudster pens a behind-the-scenes story of international scandal that rocked the art world and changed the way eBay does business.

Author : G. Garzia,C. Matteucci,M. Vandini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 8869233510

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Verità e menzogna nel falso-Truth and lies in fakes and forgeries by G. Garzia,C. Matteucci,M. Vandini Pdf

Author : Walter Stevens,Earle A Havens
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421426884

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Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450–1800 by Walter Stevens,Earle A Havens Pdf

“The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that studying early modern European literary forgeries is a fascinating cultural adventure” (Lina Bolzoni author of The Gallery of Memory). This comprehensive study of literary and historiographical forgery goes well beyond questions of authorship. It spotlights the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was a literary tradition in its own right, with distinctive connections to politics, Greek and Roman classics, religion, philosophy, and modern literature. The early modern explosion in forgery of all kinds—particularly in the fields of literary and archaeological falsification—demonstrates a dramatic shift in attitudes toward historical evidence and in the relation of texts to contemporary society. The authors capture the impact of this evolution within many cultural transformations, including the rise of print, changing tastes and fortunes of the literary marketplace, and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. The thirteen essays draw on Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva, the world’s premier research collection dedicated exclusively to the subject of literary forgery. It consists of several thousand rare books and unique manuscript materials from the early modern period and beyond. Contributors: Frederic Clark, James Coleman, Richard Cooper, Arthur Freeman, Anthony Grafton, A. Katie Harris, Earle A. Havens, Jack Lynch, Shana D. O’Connell, Ingrid Rowland, Walter Stephens, Elly Truitt, Kate Tunstall

Author : Ian Tattersall,Peter Névraumont
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780316503709

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Hoax: A History of Deception by Ian Tattersall,Peter Névraumont Pdf

An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Névraumont to tell this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered"; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world in 2800 BC and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance.

Author : Kenneth Walton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781416934615

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Fake by Kenneth Walton Pdf

It was the golden age of eBay. Optimistic bidders went online to the world's largest flea market in droves, ready to spend cash on everything from garden gnomes to Mercedes convertibles. Among them were art collectors willing to spend big money on unseen paintings, hoping to buy valuable pieces of art at below-market prices. EBay also attracted the occasional con artist unable to resist the temptation of abusing a system that prided itself on being "based on trust." Kenneth Walton -- once a lawyer bound by the ethics of his profession to uphold the law -- was seduced by just such a con artist and, eventually, became one himself. Ripped from the headlines of the New York Times, the first newspaper to break the story, Fake describes Walton's innocent beginnings as an online art-trading hobbyist and details the downward spiral of greed that ultimately led to his federal felony conviction. What started out as a satisfying exercise in reselling thrift store paintings for a profit in order to pay back student loans and mounting credit card debt soon became a fierce addiction to the subtle deception of luring unsuspecting bidders into overpaying for paintings of questionable origins. In a landscape peopled with colorful eccentrics hoping to score museum-quality paintings at bargain prices, Walton entered into a partnership with Ken Fetterman, an unslick (yet somehow very effective) con man. Over the course of eighteen months they managed to take in hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling forged paintings and bidding on their own auctions to drive up the prices. When their deception was discovered and made international headlines, Walton found himself stalked by reporters and federal agents while Fetterman went on the lam, sparking a nationwide FBI manhunt. His elaborate game of cat and mouse lasted nearly three years, until the feds caught up with him after a routine traffic violation and brought him to justice. In this sensational story of the seductive power of greed, Kenneth Walton breaks his silence for the first time and, in his own words, details the international scandal that forever changed the way eBay does business.

Author : Suzanne Bell
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438118857

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Fakes and Forgeries by Suzanne Bell Pdf

Presents information on the forensic science used to detect fakes, counterfeits, and forgeries.

Author : Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000440614

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Education in an Age of Lies and Fake News by Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš Pdf

The ‘post-truth’ world in which we live has been beset by fake news, lies and a cavalier disregard for truth. If truth is neglected then an alternative is an appeal to the emotions in order to validate a particular position, which can quickly turn to the use of power to impose a particular view. The loss of truth results in the loss of freedom. This book contends that if we want to preserve our freedom then we have a serious obligation to pursue truth. One way to do this is through an adequate moral education. Education in an Age of Lies and Fake News: Regaining a Love of Truth makes an argument for the importance of truth. It explores how we can retrieve the concept of truth and how moral education can be deployed in order to re-establish a commitment to truth. It introduces Eastern perspectives on the question of truth and how we view reality, and presents a realist position on the nature of truth as a counter to scepticism, drawing on Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, amongst others. Further, the chapters are mindful of the significance of developing a pedagogy which not only enables students to be critical thinkers, but to foster a genuine concern for truth and for its pursuit. This book will be essential reading for students, educators, philosophers and researchers pursuing the question of truth in the modern age.

Author : Arthur Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
ISBN : 0956301282

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Bibliotheca Fictiva by Arthur Freeman Pdf

An inventory of books and manuscripts relating to literary forgery. Spanning some twenty-four centuries, the book seeks also to define and describe the controversial genre it represents. Individual entries offer specific commentary on the forgers and their work, their exposers and their dupes. A broad prefatory overview surveys the entire field in its topical, historical, and national diversity. 0.

Author : Edmund P. Cueva,Javier Martínez
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789491431982

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Splendide Mendax by Edmund P. Cueva,Javier Martínez Pdf

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes and forgeries.

Author : James W. Cortada,William Aspray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538131114

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Fake News Nation by James W. Cortada,William Aspray Pdf

How rumors, lies, and misrepresentations shaped American history After the election of Donald Trump as president, people in the United States and across large swaths of Europe, Latin America, and Asia engaged in the most intensive discussion in modern times about falsehoods pronounced by public officials. Fake facts in their various forms have long been present in American life, particularly in its politics, public discourse, and business activities – going back to the time when the country was formed. This book explores the long tradition of fake facts, in their various guises, in American history. It is one of the first historical studies to place the long history of lies and misrepresentation squarely in the middle of American political, business, and science policy rhetoric. In Fake News Nation, James Cortada and William Aspray present a series of case studies that describe how lies and fake facts were used over the past two centuries in important instances in American history. Cortada and Aspray give readers a perspective on fake facts as they appear today and as they are likely to appear in the future.

Author : John Townsend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Forgery
ISBN : 1844438090

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Fakes and Forgeries by John Townsend Pdf

John Townsend presents a book for reluctant readers that looks at fakes and forgeries of all sorts, from faked deaths to forged bank notes.

Author : Cécile Michel,Michael Friedrich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110714418

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Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China by Cécile Michel,Michael Friedrich Pdf

Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle distinctions conveyed by an established vocabulary relating to the reproduction of ancient artefacts and production of artefacts claiming to be ancient: from copies, replicas and imitations to fakes and forgeries. Fakes are often a response to a demand from the public or scholarly milieu, or even both. The motives behind their production may be economic, political, religious or personal – aspiring to fame or simply playing a joke. Fakes may be revealed by combining the study of their contents, codicological, epigraphic and palaeographic analyses, and scientific investigations. However, certain famous unsolved cases still continue to defy technology today, no matter how advanced it is. Nowadays, one can find fakes in museums and private collections alike; they abound on the antique market, mixed with real artefacts that have often been looted. The scientific community’s attitude to such objects calls for ethical reflection.

Author : Mark Osteen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Forgery in literature
ISBN : 0813946271

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Fake It by Mark Osteen Pdf

"This book investigates fictional forgeries, from Thomas Chatterton's phony "medieval" poems written in the eighteenth century, to forged documents attributed to Shakespeare created in the nineteenth century, to Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes in the twentieth century"--

Author : Nancy Moses
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442274440

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Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds by Nancy Moses Pdf

A fascinating read about fakes, forgeries, and frauds. What’s real? What’s fake? Why do we care? In this time of false news and fake science, these questions are more important than ever. Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds goes beyond the headlines, tweets, and blogs to explore the true nature of authenticity and why it means so much today. This book delivers nine fascinating true stories that introduce the fakers, forgers, art authenticators, and others that populate this dark world. Examples include: Shakespeare—How an enterprising teenager in the 1790s faked Shakespeare and duped Literary London. Rembrandt—How art history, connoisseurship, and science are re-shaping our view of what Rembrandt painted and how the canvas changed over time. Relics—Was Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, a real Roman teenager who was martyred 1,800 years ago in the same place where her church stands today? Jackson Pollock—How do experts pick out the real Pollocks from the thousands of fakes? Nuremberg—How repeated reconstructions of medieval Nuremburg—including one by Adolf Hitler—show how historic preservation became a tool for propaganda. Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds also raises provocative questions about the meaning of reality. What happens when spiritual truth conflicts with historic fact? Can an object retain its essence when most of it was replaced? Why did some art patrons value an excellent copy more than the original? Why do we find fakes so eternally fascinating, and forgers such appealing con artists? Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds is a full-color book with 30 color photos. It shows that reality, exemplified by discrete physical objects, is actually mutable, unsettling, and plainly weird. Readers discover things that are less than meets the eye—and might even reconsider what’s real, what’s fake, and why they should care.