Notice catalographique « When art isn't real : the world's most controversial objects under investigation »
- Titre
- When art isn't real : the world's most controversial objects under investigation
- Auteur ou éditeur
- Shortland, Andrew J.
- Degryse, Patrick
- Lieu de publication
- Leuven
- Maison d'édition
- Leuven University Press
- Date de publication
- 2022
- Collation
- 201 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 22 cm
- Résumé
- The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. The authors of this book have decades of experience in this field, working on a range of objects dating from prehistory to the twentieth century. They present seven of the most famous cases from the Getty Kouros to the Turin Shroud some of which are still contested, and examine how a few words from a connoisseur or scientist can make a virtually valueless object worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.
- Table des matières
- Piltdown Man -- The Getty Kouros -- Turin Shroud -- The Vinland Map -- The "Amarna Princess" -- Leonardo and the Eye -- The Reconstruction of Knossos
- Langue
- English = Anglais
- Sujet
- Forgery of antiquities
- Art - Forgeries
- Antiquities - Valuation
- Antiquités - Faux
- Art - Faux
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789462703124
- Pays
- Belgium
- Type de document
- Monograph = Monographie
- Localisation
- CC 140 S56 2022
- Clé
- 19524
- Collection
- Catalogue