False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes

by Thomas Hoving

Overview

Delving into one of the most sacrosanct areas of culture—fine art collecting—Thomas Hoving presents a gallery of art fakes, fakers, and the suckers who fell for the scams.

False Impressions from Thomas Hoving reveals the biggest, the best, the most embarrassing, and the most costly forgeries in history—many of them unknown until now.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684831480
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	05/08/1997
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Thomas Hoving was a museum executive, consultant, and director for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is from New York City and received his B.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	15
1.	Fakebusters, Fakers, and How to Tell a Fake	19
2.	The Giddy Ancient World	24
3.	The Shrouded Middle Ages	37
4.	Tricks of the Renaissance and Shams of the Baroque	51
5.	Victorian Shenanigans	67
6.	The Golden Age of Fakes--Nowl	81
7.	My Early Experiences	101
8.	Young at the Game	115
9.	A Real Pro	128
10.	Busting Wolfgang	140
11.	Fakes by the Ton	150
12.	If a Fake Is So Good That It Fools All the Experts, Then...	163
13.	Has Any Faker Fooled Them All?	180
14.	Deep Suspicions	198
15.	The Pseudo-Fakebusters	209
16.	"Guardi Is Still Alive"	235
17.	The "Fhaker" with Chutzpah	256
18.	The Curious Spurious Kouros	279
19.	Con Brio	311
	Epilogue	328
	Notes	335
	Index	349