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1990

Format:	Book
Title:	Fake? : the art of deception / edited by Mark Jones with Paul Craddock and Nicolas Barker.
Publisher, Date:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.
Description:	312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Summary:	Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
Subjects:	Art -- Forgeries -- Exhibitions.
Genre:	Exhibition catalogs.
Other Author:	Jones, Mark, 1951- Craddock, P. T. (Paul T.) Barker, Nicolas. British Museum.
Notes:	"First U.S. edition"--Title page verso. Catalog of an exhibition at the British Museum. Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-309) and index.
Contents:	What is a fake? -- Rewriting history -- The limits of belief : religion, magic, myth and science -- Faking in the East -- Faking in Europe in from the Renaissance to the 18th century -- The 19th century : the great age of faking -- Faking in the 20th century -- The art and craft of faking : copying, embellishing and transforming / edited by Paul Craddock -- The scientific detection of fakes and forgeries / edited by Paul Craddock and Sheridan Bowman -- The limits of expertise.
Web Site:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	89052107
ISBN:	0520070860 9780520070868 9780520070875 0520070879 (pbk.)
Other Number:	22279285
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Control Number:	1544
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Call Number:	707.442142 Fake

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