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Forgery and counterforgery : the use of literary deceit in early Christian polemics / by Ehrman, Bart D.(CARDINAL)351424;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-574) and indexes.A comprehensive study of early Christian pseudepigrapha. Ehrman argues that ancient critics-- pagan, Jewish, and Christian-- understood false authorial claims to be a form of literary deceit, and thus forgeries. Ehrman considers the extent of the phenomenon, assesses the criteria ancient critics applied to expose forgeries and the techniques forgers used to avoid detection. Shining light on an important but overlooked feature of the early Christian world, Ehrman explores the possible motivations of the deceivers who produced these writings, situating their practice within ancient Christian discourses on lying and deceit.
Subjects: Christian literature, Early; Literary forgeries and mystifications.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Frauds, myths, and mysteries : science and pseudoscience in archaeology / by Feder, Kenneth L.,author.(CARDINAL)737655;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index."A humorous yet informative and scientific text that helps students to critically debunk archaeological myths and understand how we know what we know"--Back cover.
Subjects: Forgery of antiquities.; Archaeology.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The forgery of Venus : a novel / by Gruber, Michael,1940-(CARDINAL)466271;
Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough artists whose works sell for millions but this style of painting is no longer popular, and he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. So Wilmot makes his living cranking out parodies for ads and magazine covers. A break comes when an art dealer obtains for him a commission to restore a Venetian palace fresco by the eighteenth-century master Tiepolo, for a disreputable Italian businessman. Once there, Wilmot discovers that it is not a restoration but a re-creation, indeed a forgery. At first skeptical of the job, he then throws himself into the creative challenge and does the job brilliantly. No one can tell the modern work from something done more than two hundred years ago. This feat attracts the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and shadier present who becomes Wilmot's friend and patron. Wilmot is suddenly working with a fervor he hasn't felt in years, but his burst of creative activity is accompanied by strange interludes: Without warning, he finds himself reliving moments from his past not as memories but as if they are happening all over again. Soon, it is no longer his own past he's revisiting; he believes he can travel back to the seventeenth century, where he lived as the Spanish artist Diego Rodrguez de Silva Velzquez, one of the most famous painters in history. Wilmot begins to fantasize that as Velzquez, he has created a masterpiece, a stunning portrait of a nude. When the painting actually turns up, he doesn't know if he painted it or if he imagined the whole thing. Little by little, Wilmot enters a mirror house of illusions and hallucinations that propels him into a secret world of gangsters, greed, and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundreds of millions, or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness. In Chaz Wilmot, we meet the rarest breed of literary hero, one for whom the reader feels almost personally responsible. By turns brutally honest and self-deceptive, scornful of the world while yearning to make his mark on it, Wilmot comes astonishingly alive for the reader, and his perilous journey toward the truth becomes our own. The Forgery of Venus, a blend of erudition, unflagging narrative brio, and emotional depth, brings us inexorably toward the intersection where genius and insanity collide. Miraculously inventive, this book cements Gruber's reputation as one of the most imaginative and gifted writers of our time.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Painters; Art forgers; Painting; Extortion; Art;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Literary hoaxes : an eye-opening history of famous frauds / by Katsoulis, Melissa.;
The ultimate reader's-guide to the works that fooled publishers, readers, and critics the world over--from Dionysius the Renegade to modern publishing pranks such as the Hitler Diaries.
Subjects: Literary forgeries and mystifications;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Theft : a love story / by Carey, Peter,1943-(CARDINAL)352654;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Artists; Painting;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Theft : a love story / by Carey, Peter,1943-(CARDINAL)352654;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Artists; Painting;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Antique Trader guide to fakes & reproductions : authentic or fake? can you make the right choice? / by Chervenka, Mark.(CARDINAL)686934;
Subjects: Antiques; Antiques; Antiques;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Ultra-violet rays and their use in the examination of works of art / by Rorimer, James J.(James Joseph),1905-1966,author.(CARDINAL)265702; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),publisher.(CARDINAL)147619;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-61).
Subjects: Art criticism.; Art; Ultraviolet radiation.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The emperor's soul / by Sanderson, Brandon.(CARDINAL)348765;
When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must bargain for her life and create--to Forge--a new soul for the emperor in less than one hundred days.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Forgers; Forgery;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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The perfect landscape / by Ragna Sigurðardóttir.(CARDINAL)436854; Bowen, Sarah,1957-translator.(CARDINAL)605846;
Subjects: Fiction.; Art museums; Art;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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