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 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 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 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 meaningful 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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