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Title: Forged
Subtitle: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age
Author: Jonathon Keats
Narrator: Mark Cabus
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-17-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime
Publisher's Summary:
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 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 Goering, 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.
