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When Art Isn't Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation - Softcover

Shortland, Andrew J.; Degryse, Patrick

 
9789462703124: When Art Isn't Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9462703124 ISBN 13: 9789462703124
Verlag: Leuven University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew J. Shortland is Professor of Archaeological Science at Cranfield University, working on the identification and interpretation of material culture from the ancient and historical worlds.

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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.

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Verlag
Leuven University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9462703124
ISBN 13 
9789462703124
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
204
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