Fake?

Fake?
Author: Mark Jones
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520070875

Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.

Where the Great City Stands

Where the Great City Stands
Author: Charles Robert Ashbee
Publisher: London : Essex House Press : B.T. Batsford
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1917
Genre: Aesthetics
ISBN:

"Ashbee's most substantial presentation of his ideas on architecture, the arts, town planning and modern life in general, showing the respective influences on him of Bodley, Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, the English Arts and Crafts movement and American Beaux Arts classicism. It is still stimulating reading today"--abebooks website.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 173
Release: 1990-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892361573

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 17 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 17 includes articles written by Elisabeth Doumeyrou, Gerhard Gruitrooy, Lee Hendrix, Clark Hulse, David Jaffé, Jean-Nérée Ronfort, and Belinda Rathbone.

Furniture

Furniture
Author: Judith Miller
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2005-09-19
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0756672880

Whether you want to identify, date or evaluate your own pieces, Furniture is the only comprehensive, full-color reference guide for you. Judith Miller gives a global overview that spans the last 3,000 years of design, guaranteed to turn any amateur into a furniture buff. Furniture defines decorative motifs of key periods with over 3,500 photographs of every style and form. This eBook also includes profiles of influential designers, craftsmen and key movements.

A Truthful Likeness

A Truthful Likeness
Author: Leah Lipton
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1985
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This illustrated biography of Chester Harding, a prolific and sought-after portraitist of early national America, includes discussion of fifty-five selected paintings and a checklist of all of his known works.