The Art of the Faker

The Art of the Faker is an influential 1959 book on art forgery by Frank Arnau.

Editions and translations
  • 1959 Kunst der Fälscher - Fälscher der Kunst. 3000 Jahre Betrug mit Antiquitäten. (Original German edition)
  • 1960 L'Art des faussaires et les faussaires de l'art (French translation by Édith Vincent)
  • 1960 Arte della falsificazione, falsificazione dell'arte (Italian translation by Piero Bernardini, published in Milan)
  • 1961 The art of the faker: three thousand years of deception in art and antiques (English translation by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, published in London)
  • 1961 El Arte De Falsificar El Arte : Tres Mil Años De Fraudes En El Comercio De Antigüedades (Spanish translation by Juan Godó Costa, published in Barcelona)
gollark: Make sure that the first function yields enough.
gollark: It... shouldn't.
gollark: ```python#!/usr/bin/env python3from PIL import Imageimport mathimport sysdef chunks(l, n): for i in range(0, len(l), n): yield l[i:i + n]def from_bit_list(bl): i = 0 for ix, v in enumerate(bl): i |= v * (2 ** (7 - ix)) return iim = Image.open("out.png")id = im.load()(w, h) = im.sizebits = []for x in range(w): for y in range(h): bits.append(id[x, y])bits = [1 if x >= 1 else 0 for x in bits]byts = [from_bit_list(bytegroup) for bytegroup in chunks(bits, 8)]sys.stdout.buffer.write(bytes(byts))```Here it is. It's really rather awful.
gollark: With the companion program.
gollark: You can decode it with the companion program, which I can send an image of.

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