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Chargement... The Art Forger: A Novel (original 2012; édition 2012)par B. A. Shapiro (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Book Club - Dega forgery KIRKUS REVIEWA cleverly plotted art-world thriller/romance with a murky moral core.That nobody knows anything seems to be Shapiro?s (The Safe Room, 2002, etc., as Barbara Shapiro) assessment of art authentication, given the number of misdetected paintings strewn through her engrossing if unlikely story. In Boston, painter Claire Roth has spent three years dealing with the guilt and scandal of her involvement with Isaac Cullion, whose breakthrough work, 4D, she painted for him when he was blocked. After the picture became a success, Cullion refused to acknowledge Claire?s involvement, and her objections plus the attendant rumors led to his suicide and her vilification. Since then, she has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposalher own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumÂ¥she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn?t tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire?s lifeline when the finished forgery is discovered, Aiden and then Claire are both arrested, and only she can save them.Despite a shaky premise, this is convincingly researched, engaging storytelling. Intelligent entertainment.Pub Date: Oct. 23rd, 2012ISBN: 978-1-61620-132-6Page count: 368ppPublisher: AlgonquinReview Posted Online: Aug. 29th, 2012Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15th, 2012 Read this one that had been in my kindle for a long time once I realized it was a spun around the heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. For a person who doesn't know much about art I really enjoyed the parts of this about the forgery and overall found it to be a compelling story. (I accidentally deleted my review from Goodreads so I don't recall exactly what my first impressions where. Rats!)
Shapiro’s brisk narrative takes the reader through Boston’s art world, the logistics of forgery and the perils of attribution, shuttling between the present and three years earlier, when Claire lost Isaac and first straddled the line between copying and fraud. Interwoven are letters from Gardner to a fictitious niece, Amelia, tracing the obscure circumstances under which she acquired the Degas. (The real-life Gardner burned all her correspondence. If, as in Shapiro’s imagining, she acknowledged replies with “Thanksissimo,” perhaps it’s just as well.) Readers looking for insight into the Gardner heist will have to go elsewhere. But readers seeking an engaging novel about artists and art scandals will find “The Art Forger” rewarding for its skillful balance of brisk plotting, significant emotional depth and a multi-layered narration rich with a sense of moral consequence. Prix et récompensesListes notables
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline when the finished forgery is discovered, Aiden and then Claire are both arrested, and only she can save them. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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