Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age, (Hardcover)

from BenTreat

Verdict: A pleasant set of six narratives of forgery, but a bit of an overreach at the end. These six forgery tales form a broad narrative of the careers of six gifted visual artists who, with their gifts being ignored by an establishment for some reason, turn to forgery and defend those choices ...

from SRB5729

I really quite enjoyed this book. I read an advance copy so I can only speak to that edition. Keats discussion of the impact of forgeries was very stimulating and provided significant food for thought. If one can perfectly replicate the work of another down to the finest detail, is that not artis...

from doomjesse

A book that tries to establish fakes as a true art? It's a fascinating premise and one I eagerly awaited. When I received an advance reader copy of this book, it was extraordinarily thin(175 pages) for what I had supposed was a more scholarly text. The book also lacked pictures. To me if you're g...

from keristars

There are several threads that Keats follows in his descriptions of artists and fakes in Forged, but I think the primary theme of the novel is "value" — what makes something 'art', how and why do we assign value to it, and what does it mean when the stated reasons for the evaluation are divorced ...

from highland65

While this book is very well written and thoroughly enjoyable, I think it needs to be positioned or "pitched" differently. While, in retrospect, the title is accurate, I had expected inflammatory argumentation and flamboyant crimes. But the book is better than that. The first section is a fascina...