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Genuine Fakes

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Author : Lydia Pyne
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019

Genuine Fakes written by Lydia Pyne and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Fake news categories.

Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their beloved blockbuster documentaries are staged? Can people move past assuming that a diamond grown in a lab is a fake? What happens when a forged painting or manuscript becomes more valuable than its original?This is a book about genuine fakes - the curious and complex objects that provoke these very sorts of questions. Genuine fakes fall into the space between things that are real and things that are not; whether or not we think that those things are authentic is a matter of perspective. Unsurprisingly, the world is full of genuine fakes - full of things that defy simple categorisation.From stories of audacious forgeries to feats of technological innovation, historian Lydia Pyne explores how the authenticity of eight genuine fakes depends on their unique combinations of history, science and culture. The stories of art forgeries, fake fossils, nature documentaries, synthetic flavours, museum exhibits, Maya codices and Palaeolithic replicas show that genuine fakes are both complicated and change over time.Drawing from historical archives, interviews, museum exhibits and science fiction as well as her own research, Pyne brings each genuine fake to life through unexpected and often outrageous stories. Genuine Fakes will make readers think about all the unreal things they encounter in their daily lives, and why they invoke the reactions - surprise, wonder, understanding or annoyance - that they do.

Genuine Fakes

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Author : Lydia Pyne
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-08

'Lively, thought-provoking and consistently surprising. Lydia Pyne is the real deal.' Ed Yong, author of New York Times bestseller I Contain Multitudes Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their beloved blockbuster documentaries are staged? Can people move past assuming that a diamond grown in a lab is a fake? What happens when a forged painting or manuscript becomes more valuable than its original? This is a book about genuine fakes – the curious and complex objects that provoke these very sorts of questions. Genuine fakes fall into the space between things that are real and things that are not; whether or not we think that those things are authentic is a matter of perspective. Unsurprisingly, the world is full of genuine fakes – full of things that defy simple categorisation. From stories of audacious forgeries to feats of technological innovation, historian Lydia Pyne explores how the authenticity of eight genuine fakes depends on their unique combinations of history, science and culture. The stories of art forgeries, fake fossils, nature documentaries, synthetic flavours, museum exhibits, Maya codices and Palaeolithic replicas show that genuine fakes are both complicated and change over time. Drawing from historical archives, interviews, museum exhibits and science fiction as well as her own research, Pyne brings each genuine fake to life through unexpected and often outrageous stories. Genuine Fakes will make readers think about all the unreal things they encounter in their daily lives, and why they invoke the reactions – surprise, wonder, understanding or annoyance – that they do.

Genuine Fakes

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Author : Rosemary Myatt
language : en
Publisher: Green Eye Productions Academy
Release Date :

Genuine Fakes written by Rosemary Myatt and has been published by Green Eye Productions Academy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art categories.

The 1980's and 1990's witnessed a dramatic increase in the price of works of Art. As prices soared so did the potential for fraud. Genuine Fakes is based on the "Greatest Art Fraud Of The 20th Century". Genuine Fakes provides a unique vantage point into the decade where two different men met in the strangest of circumstances and proceeded to mastermind possibly the largest art fraud of the twentieth century. Loosely based on the true story Genuine Fakes, these two men managed to exploit the art world with their dangerous combination of extraordinary talents in both art and deception. Told from the perspective of the struggling art teacher, whose artistic creations using household emulsion came to fool the art elite, we see the moral dilemma of a man who has to care for his two children following the collapse of his marriage but who also desires the finer things in life opened up to him by a charismatic but wholly unscrupulous patron of the arts. The result was the criminal penetration of the art world from within by a plan designed to achieve the perfect fraud, which saw hundreds of fake paintings, allegedly by well-known artists such as Monet and Chagall ending up in museums and collections around the planet. Many remain there to this day.

Real Phonies And Genuine Fakes

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Author : Nicky Beer
language : en
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Release Date : 2022-03-08

Real Phonies And Genuine Fakes written by Nicky Beer and has been published by Milkweed Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Poetry categories.

What is illusion—a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem—the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”? Nicky Beer’s latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine academy specializing in the study of subterfuge; Marlene Dietrich, Dolly Parton, and Batman are its instructors. With an energetic eye, she thumbs through our collective history books—and her personal one, too—in an effort to chart the line between playful forms of duplicity and those that are far more insidious. Through delicious japery, poems that can be read multiple ways, and allusions ranging from Puccini’s operas to Law & Order, Beer troubles the notion of truth. Often, we settle for whatever brand of honesty is convenient for us, or whatever is least likely to spark confrontation—but this, Beer knows, is how we invite others to weigh in on what kind of person we are. This is how we trick ourselves into believing they’re right. “Listen / to how quiet it is when I lose the self-doubt played / for so long I mistook it for music.” Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes asks us to look through the stereoscope: which image is the real one? This one—or this one, just here? With wisdom, humility, and a forthright tenderness, Nicky Beer suggests that we consider both—together, they might contribute to something like truth.

Authentic Fakes

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Author : David Chidester
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-04-18

Authentic Fakes written by David Chidester and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-18 with Religion categories.

Authentic Fakes explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market, to name a few. Chidester travels through the cultural landscape and discovers the role that fakery—in the guise of frauds, charlatans, inventions, and simulations—plays in creating religious experience. His book is at once an incisive analysis of the relationship between religion and popular culture and a celebration of the myriad ways in which invention can stimulate the religious imagination. Moving beyond American borders, Chidester considers the religion of McDonald’s and Disney, the discourse of W.E.B. Du Bois and the American movement in Southern Africa, the messianic promise of Nelson Mandela’s 1990 tour to America, and more. He also looks at the creative possibilities of the Internet in such phenomena as Discordianism, the Holy Order of the Cheeseburger, and a range of similar inventions. Arguing throughout that religious fakes can do authentic religious work, and that American popular culture is the space of that creative labor, Chidester looks toward a future "pregnant with the possibilities of new kinds of authenticity."

Faux Real

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Author : Robert Kanigel
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-06-06

Faux Real written by Robert Kanigel and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-06 with Business & Economics categories.

What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know. Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede. Each claims to transcend leather's limitations, to do better than nature itself—or at least to convince consumers that it does. Perhaps more than any other natural material, leather stands for the authentic and the genuine. Its animal roots etched in its pores and in the swirls of its grain, leather serves as cultural shorthand for the virtues of the real over the synthetic, the original over the copy, the luxurious over the shoddy and second-rate. From formica, vinyl siding, and particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents a journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.

Real Or Fake

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Author : Joe Nickell
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2009-07-17

Real Or Fake written by Joe Nickell and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-17 with Law categories.

Will the rare autographed baseball your great-uncle gave you put your children through college? Is your grandmother's chest of drawers really a seventeenth-century antique, or merely a reproduction? A leader in forgery detection and forensic investigation, Joe Nickell reveals his secrets to detecting artifacts items in Real or Fake: Studies in Authentication. Detailing how the pros determine whether an Abraham Lincoln signature is forged or if a photograph of Emily Dickinson is genuine, Nickell provides the essential tools necessary to identify counterfeits. In this general introduction to the principles of authentication, Nickell provides readers with step-by-step explanations of the science used to detect falsified documents, photographs, and other objects. Illustrating methods used on hit shows such as Antiques Roadshow and History Detectives, Nickell recommends that aspiring investigators employ a comprehensive approach to identifying imitations. One should consider the object's provenance (the origin or derivation of an artifact), content (clues in the scene or item depicted), and material composition (what artifacts are made of), as well as the results of scientific analyses, including radiographic, spectroscopic, microscopic, and microchemical tests. Including fascinating cases drawn from Nickell's illustrious career, Real or Fake combines historical and scientific investigations to reveal reproductions and genuine objects. Nickell explains the warning signs of forgery, such as patching and unnatural pen lifts; chronicles the evolution of writing instruments, inks, and papers; shows readers how to date photographs, papers, and other materials; and traces the development of photographic processes since the mid-nineteenth century. Lavishly illustrated with examples of replicas and authentic objects inspected by Nickell, Real or Fake includes case studies of alleged artifacts including Jack the Ripper's diary, a draft of the Gettysburg Address, notes by Charles Dickens, Jefferson Davis's musket, and debris from the Titanic.

Paintings

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Author : Roger H. Marijnissen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

Paintings written by Roger H. Marijnissen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Art categories.

Fakes Forgeries And Frauds

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Author : Nancy Moses
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2020-02-15

Fakes Forgeries And Frauds written by Nancy Moses and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-15 with Art categories.

A fascinating read about fakes, forgeries, and frauds. What’s real? What’s fake? Why do we care? In this time of false news and fake science, these questions are more important than ever. Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds goes beyond the headlines, tweets, and blogs to explore the true nature of authenticity and why it means so much today. This book delivers nine fascinating true stories that introduce the fakers, forgers, art authenticators, and others that populate this dark world. Examples include: Shakespeare—How an enterprising teenager in the 1790s faked Shakespeare and duped Literary London. Rembrandt—How art history, connoisseurship, and science are re-shaping our view of what Rembrandt painted and how the canvas changed over time. Relics—Was Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, a real Roman teenager who was martyred 1,800 years ago in the same place where her church stands today? Jackson Pollock—How do experts pick out the real Pollocks from the thousands of fakes? Nuremberg—How repeated reconstructions of medieval Nuremburg—including one by Adolf Hitler—show how historic preservation became a tool for propaganda. Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds also raises provocative questions about the meaning of reality. What happens when spiritual truth conflicts with historic fact? Can an object retain its essence when most of it was replaced? Why did some art patrons value an excellent copy more than the original? Why do we find fakes so eternally fascinating, and forgers such appealing con artists? Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds is a full-color book with 30 color photos. It shows that reality, exemplified by discrete physical objects, is actually mutable, unsettling, and plainly weird. Readers discover things that are less than meets the eye—and might even reconsider what’s real, what’s fake, and why they should care.

How To Spot A Fake Designer Handbag

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Author : Briana Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Bull City Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-05

How To Spot A Fake Designer Handbag written by Briana Stewart and has been published by Bull City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with categories.

“How to Spot a Fake Handbag” is a unique and easy guide, which helps relieve the worry of spending $100's and $100's of dollars buying fake Louis Vuitton or Fake Prada, Fake coach and other handbags online. With this Amazing Guide we Will Show You Exactly What Is the Difference between Authentic Designer handbags and Counterfeit Handbags( both online and offline)! With the advent of the Internet the crimes and scams at a all time high online hustlers are raking in the dirty dollars like never before.Websites like ioffer.com Ebay.com and even amazon.com have become a breeding ground for fake designer merchandise and while there are websites selling the genuine items, there are just as many sellers passing off counterfeit goods as the real thing.Rumor has it that security staff at Louis Vuitton will even confiscate guests’ handbags at their fashion shows if they are suspected fakes (Imagine the embarrassment)! Most Designer Brands....take the problem seriously by hiring watch dog services and investigation companies, But these efforts only combat less than 3% of the total handbags counterfeited Globally. Which is a estimated $8 billion dollar business( Global Counterfeited goods)....... Because of minuscule efforts on the behalf of the brands...Consumers must be pro active in protecting themselves.......Our guide is the 1st line of defense for the savvy consumers.... Some of the tactics, tips and advice in store for you include the following: • This book will reveal all the hidden facts that will help you spot fake handbags even from miles away! • You will get a report which will tell you how to spot a fake Louis Vuitton. • It also includes a report on how to spot a fake Coach bag which will give all the details on the authenticity of coach bags. • It includes a special report on spotting a fake Prada which will help you buying the genuine one. • You’ll get lifetime updates of “How to Spot a Fake Handbag” and that’s absolutely free of charge. After reading our guide you’ll be able to walk into any handbag shop (online or offline) and be armed with the hidden tactics of spotting a fake designer handbag a mile away.

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