The Deceivers by Aviva Briefel HARDBACK 9780801444609

The Deceivers\nby Aviva Briefel\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Aviva Briefel\nTitle: The Deceivers\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Forgery, falsification and theft of artworks\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2006\nISBN-13: 9780801444609\nISBN-10: 0801444608\nRRP: \u00A355.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions...\n\nThe nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from t.