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The many faces of art forgery: from the dark side to shades of gray

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781538158005 (hardcover)
Author	Casement, William 1947-
Title	The many faces of art forgery : from the dark side to shades of gray / William Casement
Publisher	Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2022
Physical desc.	vii, 271 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note	CB illustrations: p. 23, fig. 1.2b (WEp 1357).
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-253) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The presence of art forgery -- Before the Renaissance -- Renaissance through the seventeenth century -- Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Into the twentieth century -- Forgery's reach -- Celebrity forgers -- From the less notorious to the virtually unknown -- Confronting art forgery -- What is a forgery? what is authentic? -- Semantic variations -- Intention -- Restoration -- Collaboration -- Appropriation -- Posthumous production -- Cultural appropriation -- A face-off of values -- The mind of the forger -- Criminality -- Mitigated culpability and alternative economics -- The perfect fake -- Reflections on the big picture.
Subject	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- WEp 1357
Subject	Art -- Forgeries

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