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Master Forgers from the Renaissance to the Age of AI
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What motivates an art forger? How easy are they to catch? And to what extent have AI and other technologies changed how we approach matters of authenticity, derivation, and forgery? In The Art of Forgery, Noah Charney, celebrated art historian and the world’s foremost art-crime specialist,...
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What motivates an art forger? How easy are they to catch? And to what extent have AI and other technologies changed how we approach matters of authenticity, derivation, and forgery?
In The Art of Forgery, Noah Charney, celebrated art historian and the world’s foremost art-crime specialist, explores the stories behind the most famous art forgeries in the world. Chronicling the adventures and misadventures of master forgers throughout history, the book examines how and why these artful tricksters – often ingenious, skilful, quirky, and charming – succeeded in deceiving the art world and how they were eventually caught, through shrewd detective work, scientific examination, or a good measure of luck.
Illustrated in colour throughout, this new revised and expanded edition takes in recent developments in the realm of art and authenticity, from NFTs (content, including artwork, in the form of digital files the ownership of which is written into the blockchain) to the rise of AI, with its ability to create, on command, unique new digital images of superlative quality, prompting questions about authorship, originality, and more.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350545137
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: 38 colour illus
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 620g
Pages: 280
About the Author
Noah Charney is the internationally bestselling author of more than 30 books, translated into 14 languages, including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art (2017), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Museum of Lost Art (2018), which was the finalist for the Digital Book World Award. Noah is a professor of art history, teaching courses on art crime at Yale, The Smithsonian, and the National Gallery, UK.
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