In this volume, Thierry Lenain charts the changing status of art forgery from the time of its appearance in the Renaissance--when it was initially hailed as a true artistic feat--to its condemnation as the art crime par excellence. Rather than suggesting new methods of detection…
Review text: "Le solide premesse teoriche esplicitate dai curatori fanno sì che il volume, nel suo complesso, sia ricco di interventi anche molto vari, ma sempre coerenti, pertinenti e stimolanti."Claudio Franzoni in: BMCR 2011.05.27.
"This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the w…
Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait and copies after his Woman and her toilette : recollections of the Alhambra's constellation halls, the hamman, and alchemy / Barbara von Barghahn -- Not just copies but variations, suggestions, interpretations and critical reception : Joos van C…
