Is forgery art?
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2013 · Education
Jonathon Keats, author of Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age, discusses art forgery as an art form in its own right. http://oxford.ly/TbN60v Jonathon Keats is a critic, journalist and artist. He is the art critic for San Francisco Magazine, and has contributed art criticism to Art & Antiques, Art + Auction, Art in America, ARTnews, Artweek, and Salon.com. His arts writing has also appeared in Wired Magazine, ForbesLife Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age and Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology. His conceptual art has been exhibited at venues including the Berkeley Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Wellcome Collection. For more information http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ArtArchitecture/History/?view=usa&ci=9780199928354 (c) Oxford University Press USA 2013
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