A arte do engano

O livro seguinte, que serviu de catálogo a uma exposição do British Museum, está na íntegra, livremente disponível para leitura na internet:

Mark Jones (ed.), Fake? The art of deception, London, British Museum Publications, 1990.

Está aqui.

Índice:

• Why fakes?, p.11
• Forging the past, p. 16
• Textual forgery, p. 22
• What is a fake?, p. 29
• Rewriting history, p. 59
• The limits of belief: religion, magic, myth and science, p. 79
• Faking in the East, p. 99
• Faking in Europe from the Renaissance to the 18th century, p. 119
• The 19th century: the great age of faking, p. 161
• Faking in the 20th century, p. 235
• The art and craft of faking: copying, embellishing and transforming, p. 247
• The scientific detection of fakes and forgeries, p. 275
• The limits of expertise, p. 291