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This is a book about the lines, if there are any, between originals and forgeries, copies, or plagiarised works. (The "recognitions" of the title are the signs by which art experts tell if a painting is genuine or forged.) We have a painter whose inspiration is the Old Masters and how to paint like them and then wreak the damage of centuries onto the work to make it look authentic; a playwright who is accused of plagiarism, apparently by chance; and others including a money counterfeiter. What m
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