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The Art Thief by Michael Finkel 9781471186264
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world by Joseph Hone 9781784744670
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €20.40'Absolutely fascinating . . . A must-read for anyone enthralled by the value and integrity of books' Janice Hallett, author of The Alperton AngelsA true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers: the literary crime that fooled... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel 9780241304372
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €34.15The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men... -
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment 9781529081497
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was... -
Art Heist: 50 Artworks You Will Never See Susie Hodge 9780711287938
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.31An intriguing investigation into over 50 elusive artworks that were stolen and never recovered.Mona Lisa, Starry Night, Birth of Venus. People travel for hundreds of miles to observe these breathtaking paintings with their own eyes. Now discover the... -
Restitution: The Return of Cultural Artefacts by Alexander Herman
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.29Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acquired a new urgency recently with the intensification of scrutiny of European museum collections acquired in the colonial period. Alexander Herman's... -
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World by Anthony M. Amore 9781250108609
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.90Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible... -
Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats 9780199928354
RRP: €19.62Booksplease Price: €16.26According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning... -
Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners by Sandy Nairne
Booksplease Price: €25.89The theft of high-profile works of art is not new and recurs on a fairly regular basis. In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner (then valued at 24 million) were stolen from a public gallery in Frankfurt while on loan from the Tate in London... -
NG6461: The Fake Rubens Euphrosyne Doxiadis 9781916809369
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €48.11NG6461 is an unforgettable account of what has gone wrong in the art world, and of what can be done to change it. -
NG6461: Copy in the Manner of Peter Paul Rubens Euphrosyne Doxiadis 9781916809895
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809895Author Euphrosyne DoxiadisFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity by Elaine K. Gazda 9780472111893
Booksplease Price: €119.80All too often, museums throughout the world label their Roman sculpture and wall paintings as "Roman copy after a Greek original." In this book, Elaine K. Gazda and the contributors question the often too simplistic, deeply ingrained thinking that... -
Art as Plunder: The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property by Margaret M. Miles
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €45.55This book examines the ancient origins of debate about art as cultural property. What happens to art in time of war? Who should own art, and what is its appropriate context? Should the victorious ever allow the defeated to keep their art? These questions... -
The Picasso Ransom: and other stories about art and crime in Australia by Mark S Holsworth 9780646873077
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646873077Author Mark S HolsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Mark S HolsworthPublisher Mark S HolsworthWeight(grams) 399g -
Italian Forgers: The Art Market and the Weight of the Past in Modern Italy by Carol Helstosky 9781501774577
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €47.84Italian Forgers takes an unorthodox approach to the fascinating topic of art forgery, focusing not on art forgery per se, but on the major forgery scandals that shifted the Italian art market in response to constant, and often intense, demand for Italian... -
The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson Forgeries Jon S. Dellandrea 9781773102535
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €29.83In May 2016, Jon S. Dellandrea came into possession of a box of the last effects of an obscure artist, William Firth MacGregor. The contents of the box chronicled a major, and long forgotten, trial involving forgeries of the art of Tom Thomson and the...