False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes Thomas Hoving
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With his trademark humor and irreverence, Thomas Hovingdelves into the underbelly of the art world to reveal appalling scams, duplicitous perpetrators, and hapless dupes from the beginning of civilization to the present. From the shroud of Turin to Pre-Columbian pottery, Hoving exposes the biggest, the best, the most embarrassing, and the most costly forgeries in history - most never before published. He characterizes the fakers, their middlemen, and the "marks"; examines the motives of the fakers and the dupes (it's not always the money); and introduces us to the talented "fakebusters" whose job it is to expose the truth.
