segunda-feira, 10 de janeiro de 2011

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

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