Scientific Investigation Of Copies Fakes And Forgeries

Author : Paul T. Craddock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780750642057

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Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries by Paul T. Craddock Pdf

"Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries is a comprehensive guide to the technical and scientific study of the authenticity of a wide range of antiquities and artworks. It is the first book to provide a full survey of the subject of forgery from a scientific basis, examining a wide range of materials and techniques." "The demand for copies, fakes and forgeries is driven by rising prices in an international marketplace. The book examines the available new technologies and ever more sophisticated forging techniques, looking at production and distribution of fraudulent artworks. The subject is exemplified by numerous internationally based case studies, some turning out not to be as conclusive as is sometimes believed." "The book is aimed at those who need to understand the available approaches to and methods of scientific and technical authentication, be they curator, collector, conservator or scientist." --Book Jacket.

Author : Paul T. Craddock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0705642054

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Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries by Paul T. Craddock Pdf

Author : Suzanne Bell
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781620875933

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How to Identify a Forgery by Suzanne Bell Pdf

Looks at the modern tools of computers, printers, and scanners to create questioned documents and counterfeits and provides an overview of the start of fakes and forgeries from ancient times to the present.

Author : Ragai Jehane
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783267422

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The Scientist and the Forger by Ragai Jehane Pdf

'The scientific techniques described encompass relevant examples of forgery detection and of authentication. The book deals, to name a few, with the Chagall, the Jackson Pollock and the Beltracchi affairs and discusses the Isleworth Mona Lisa as well as La Bella Principessa both thought to be a Leonardo creation. The authentication, amongst others, of two van Gogh paintings, of Vermeer's St Praxedis, of Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine and of Rembrandt's Old Man with a Beard are also described.'Over the last few decades there has been a disconcerting increase in the number of forged paintings. In retaliation, there has been a rise in the use, efficiency and ability of scientific techniques to detect these forgeries. The scientist has waged war on the forger.The Scientist and the Forger describes the cutting-edge and traditional weapons in this battle, showing how they have been applied to the most notorious cases. The book also provides fresh insights into the psychology of both the viewer and the forger, shedding light on why the discovery that a work of art is a forgery makes us view it so differently and providing a gripping analysis of the myriad motivations behind the most egregious incursions into deception.The book concludes by discussing the pressing problems faced by the art world today, stressing the importance of using appropriate tools for a valid verdict on authenticity. Written in an approachable and amenable style, the book will make fascinating reading for non-specialists, art historians, curators and scientists alike.

Author : Thierry Lenain
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861899590

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Art Forgery by Thierry Lenain Pdf

With the recent advent of technologies that make detecting art forgeries easier, the art world has become increasingly obsessed with verifying and ensuring artistic authenticity. In this unique history, Thierry Lenain examines the genealogy of faking and interrogates the anxious, often neurotic, reactions triggered in the modern art world by these clever frauds. Lenain begins his history in the Middle Ages, when the issue of false relics and miracles often arose. But during this time, if a relic gave rise to a cult, it would be considered as genuine even if it obviously had been forged. In the Renaissance, forgery was initially hailed as a true artistic feat. Even Michelangelo, the most revered artist of the time, copied drawings by other masters, many of which were lent to him by unsuspecting collectors. Michelangelo would keep the originals himself and return the copies in their place. As Lenain shows, authenticity, as we think of it, is a purely modern concept. And the recent innovations in scientific attribution, archaeology, graphology, medical science, and criminology have all contributed to making forgery more detectable—and thus more compelling and essential to detect. He also analyzes the work of master forgers like Eric Hebborn, Thomas Keating, and Han van Meegeren in order to describe how pieces baffled the art world. Ultimately, Lenain argues that the science of accurately deciphering an individual artist’s unique characteristics has reached a level of forensic sophistication matched only by the forger’s skill and the art world’s paranoia.

Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0714867454

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The Art of Forgery by Noah Charney Pdf

The Art of Forgery: Case Studies in Deception explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world’s most famous forgeries – investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned the public and the art establishment alike.

Author : Jonathon Keats
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199928354

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Forged by Jonathon Keats Pdf

According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality. Forged explores art forgery from ancient times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with insightful art criticism, Jonathon Keats profiles individual art forgers and connects their stories to broader themes about the role of forgeries in society. From the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici patrons, to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped the avaricious Hermann Göring, to the frustrated British artist Eric Hebborn, who began forging to expose the ignorance of experts, art forgers have challenged "legitimate" art in their own time, breaching accepted practices and upsetting the status quo. They have also provocatively confronted many of the present-day cultural anxieties that are major themes in the arts. Keats uncovers what forgeries—and our reactions to them—reveal about changing conceptions of creativity, identity, authorship, integrity, authenticity, success, and how we assign value to works of art. The book concludes by looking at how artists today have appropriated many aspects of forgery through such practices as street-art stenciling and share-and-share-alike licensing, and how these open-source "copyleft" strategies have the potential to make legitimate art meaningful again. Forgery has been much discussed—and decried—as a crime. Forged is the first book to assess great forgeries as high art in their own right.

Author : Lisa Pon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300096801

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Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi by Lisa Pon Pdf

In early sixteenth-century Italy, works of art came to be understood as unique objects made by individuals of genius, giving rise to a new sense of the artist as the author of his images. At the same time, the practice of engraving, a medium that produced multiple printed images via collaborative processes, rapidly developed. In this book, Lisa Pon examines how images passed between artists and considers how printing techniques affected the authorship of images. Pon focuses on the encounters between the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi and three key artists: Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, and Giorgio Vasari. She reevaluates their work in light of the tensions between possessive authorship and practical collaboration in the visual arts.

Author : Ken Perenyi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781639363056

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Caveat Emptor by Ken Perenyi Pdf

It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught. Caveat Emptor reveals the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger. Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.” Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Caveat Emptor, is Ken Perenyi’s confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off. Glamorous stories of art-world scandal have always captured the public imagination. However, not since Clifford Irving’s 1969 bestselling Fake has there been a story at all like this one. Caveat Emptor is unique in that it is the first and only book by and about America’s first and only great art forger. And unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds. In the tradition of Frank Abagnale’s Catch Me If You Can, and certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of America’s greatest art forger.

Author : Cécile Michel,Michael Friedrich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Charles Ainsworth Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Chemistry, Forensic
ISBN : UVA:X002059915

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Documents and Their Scientific Examination by Charles Ainsworth Mitchell Pdf

Author : Mark Jones,Paul T. Craddock,Nicolas Barker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520070879

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Fake? by Mark Jones,Paul T. Craddock,Nicolas Barker Pdf

Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.

Author : William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:751033740

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The Art of Scientific Investigation by William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Pdf

Author : Eugenie Samuel Reich
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0230621341

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Plastic Fantastic by Eugenie Samuel Reich Pdf

This is the story of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön who faked the discovery of a new superconductor made from plastic. A star researcher at the world-renowned Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he claimed to have stumbled across a powerful method for making carbon-based crystals into transistors, the switches found on computer chips. Had his experiments worked, they would have paved the way for huge advances in technology--computer chips that we could stick on a dress or eyewear, or even use to make electronic screens as thin and easy-to-fold as sheets of paper. But as other researchers tried to recreate Schön's experiments, the scientific community learned that it had been duped. Why did so many top experts, including Nobel prize-winners, support Schön? What led the major scientific journals to publish his work, and promote it with press releases? And what drove Schön, by all accounts a mild-mannered, modest and obliging young man, to tell such outrageous lies?

Author : C Ainsworth 1867- Mitchell
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293515957

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Documents and Their Scientific Examination by C Ainsworth 1867- Mitchell Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.