The Art Detective by Philip Mould
The art world has never seemed so deceptive--or so much fun. A star of Antiques Roadshow shares his stories of discovering masterpieces and unmasking forgeries.How can you tell a masterpiece from a piece of junk?
Philip Mould has been so successful at discovering buried treasures that he's affectionately known as "the art detective." Now, at last, he has decided to let the eleven million fans of Antiques Roadshow in on his secrets. Each chapter revolves around a particular painting and the people who helped unmask its creator's identity-from an ingeniously forged Norman Rockwell (good enough to fool the Rockwell Museum) to a Winslow Homer found in a dump. Witty and compulsively readable, The Art Detective is memoir, art history, and brilliant storytelling all rolled into one.
Philip Mould is a frequent on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and is the host of the Channel 4 documentary series Changing Faces, which explores the evolution of portraiture. He owns a gallery in London, is the art adviser to the British House of Commons and House of Lords, and even sold a picture to the Queen. He is known as the art detective. He and his wife and kid live in London, where he is adapting parts of his book The Art Detective into a big multipart prime-time television series.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143119166 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143119168 |
| Title | The Art Detective |
| Author | Philip Mould |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2011-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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