Lisa Pon
Raphael, Durer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2004.
224 pp.; 37 color ills.; 58 b/w ills.
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$65.00
(9780300096804)
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December 8, 2011
Henk Tromp
A Real Van Gogh: How the Art World Struggles with Truth
Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press,
2010.
351 pp.; 42 color ills.; many b/w ills.
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(9789089641762)
Paul Craddock
Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries
Oxford:
Butterworth-Heinemann,
2009.
640 pp.
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(9780750642057)
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The art world wants to be deceived. That is certainly the conclusion one comes away with after reading A Real Van Gogh, Henk Tromp’s thoroughly researched, highly readable, fascinating new book, which uses the history of van Gogh authenticity and forgery debates to discuss what happens in the art world when someone cries wolf. It is not a pretty picture for the expert who deigns to proclaim a work inauthentic. Tromp’s book does an admirable...