The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137279877 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Want to buy an original picture? Terrific stories about art fraud. Proves that truth is stranger than fiction.. "Five Stars" according to Cheneaux. Interesting book.. Art Fakes The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes by Anthony M. Amore is a most interesting book. I have a background as an art teacher so have at least a familiarity with the artists mentioned. Though this adds to the narrative's enjoyment, I don't believe it would be necessary. The writing is well done
AMORE is an expert in security matters and head of security and chief investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. He lives in Boston, MA. . He is the co-author of Stealing Rembrandts, which was a Wall Street Journal True Crime Best Seller. ANTHONY M. Before joining the Gardner Museum in 2005, Amore worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and was a Spe
Amore makes it clear that the real money in art crime is to be made from forgeries, fakes, online auctions, laser printers and other 21st-century technologies. The Art of the Con is wonderfully investigated-and highly paced-and provides a jaw-hitting-the-floor examination of art world fraud.” Ulrich Boser, author of THE GARDNER HEIST: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST UNSOLVED ART THEFT“Not only is The Art of the Con a wild ride through a rogue's gallery of colorful art forgers, entertainingly written by a master of prose. Brazen museum thefts get all the headlines, but Anthony M. And Amore's diverse, colorful crew of art-gallery grifters and scammers have been reaping the kind of ill-gotten gains that old-school criminals could only dream of. But it's also an object lesson in how art is made, what makes art valuable, and how some of the smartest minds in the business could be suckered by
Art 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 forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. For some, it's an irresistible urge because their innocent dupes all share something in common: they want to believe.. Amore's The Art of the Con tells the stories of some of history's most notorious yet untold cons. Anthony M. They involve stolen art hidden for decades; elaborate ruses that involve the Nazis and allegedly plundered art; the theft of a conceptual prototype from a well-known arti