Oxford University Press USA | ISBN:0199928355 | File Type: PDF, 208 pages | File size: 19.Mb | Jan. 1st, 2013
General Art Subjects: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age According to Vasari the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters which he copied returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals Half a millennium later Andy Warhol made a game of forging the Mona Lisa questioning the entire concept of originality Forged explores art forgery from ancient times to the present In chapters combining lively biography with insightf art criticism Jonathon Keats profiles individual art forgers and connects their stories to broader themes about the role of forgeries in society From the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici patrons to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped the avaricious Hermann G ring to the frustrated British artist Eric Hebborn who began forging to expose the ignorance of experts art forgers have challenged legitimate art in their own time breaching accepted practices and upsetting the status quo They have also provocatively confronted many of the present day ctural anxieties that are major themes in the arts Keats uncovers what forgeries and our reactions to them reveal about changing conceptions of creativity identity authorship integrity authenticity success and how we assign value to works of art The book concludes by looking at how artists today have appropriated many aspects of forgery through such practices as street art stenciling and share and share alike licensing and how these open source copyleft strategies have the potential to make legitimate art meaningf again Forgery has been much discussed and decried as a crime Forged is the first book to assess great forgeries as high art in their own right
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