TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lenain,Thierry
TI  - Art forgery: the history of a modern obsession 
SN  - 9781861898500 :
AV  - N8790 .L46 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Reaktion Books
KW  - Art
KW  - Forgeries
KW  - History
KW  - Pictures
KW  - Copying
KW  - Expertising
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-375) and index; The symptoms of an obsession -- Before the age of art forgery -- Before the age of the obsession with art forgery -- Art forgery as the connoisseur's nightmare -- Conclusion: Fakes and the end of the world
N2  - 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
ER  -