False Impressions

by Hoving, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780684831480
• ISBN10: 0684831481
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-08
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

Delving into one of the most sacrosanct areas of culture—fine art collecting—Thomas Hoving presents a gallery of art fakes, fakers, and the suckers who fell for the scams.

False Impressions from Thomas Hoving reveals the biggest, the best, the most embarrassing, and the most costly forgeries in history—many of them unknown until now.

Author Biography

Thomas Hoving is the former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former Editor-in-Chief of Connoisseur, he lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 15
Fakebusters, Fakers, and How to Tell a Fake	p. 19
The Giddy Ancient World	p. 24
The Shrouded Middle Ages	p. 37
Tricks of the Renaissance and Shams of the Baroque	p. 51
Victorian Shenanigans	p. 67
The Golden Age of Fakes--Nowl	p. 81
My Early Experiences	p. 101
Young at the Game	p. 115
A Real Pro	p. 128
Busting Wolfgang	p. 140
Fakes by the Ton	p. 150
If a Fake Is So Good That It Fools All the Experts, Then...	p. 163
Has Any Faker Fooled Them All?	p. 180
Deep Suspicions	p. 198
The Pseudo-Fakebusters	p. 209
"Guardi Is Still Alive"	p. 235
The "Fhaker" with Chutzpah	p. 256
The Curious Spurious Kouros	p. 279
Con Brio	p. 311
Epilogue	p. 328
Notes	p. 335
Index	p. 349
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