{"product_id":"forged-why-fakes-are-the-great-art-of-our-age-hardcover","title":"Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathon Keats\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eForged\u003c\/em\u003e explores art forgery from ancient times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with insightful 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 Göring, 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 cultural 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\u003cbr\u003eworks 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 meaningful again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForgery has been much discussed--and decried--as a crime. \u003cem\u003eForged\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to assess great forgeries as high art in their own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathon Keats\u003c\/strong\u003e is a critic, journalist and artist. He is the art critic for \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and has contributed art criticism to \u003cem\u003eArt \u0026amp; Antiques, Art + Auction, Art in America, ARTnews, Artweek\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSalon.com\u003c\/em\u003e. His arts writing has also appeared in \u003cem\u003eWired Magazine, ForbesLife Magazine, The Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e. He is most recently the author of \u003cem\u003eVirtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP). His conceptual art has been exhibited at venues including the Berkeley Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Wellcome Collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457405894909,"sku":"9780199928354","price":32.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/V3FuNXd3NndwdjJhVnRUUGhtM3BBdz09.webp?v=1777237577","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/forged-why-fakes-are-the-great-art-of-our-age-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}