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Chargement... The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (2008)par Edward Dolnick
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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. An interesting story, though not quite as gripping as dolnick's rescue artist, which I highly recommend. I particularly enjoyed the details of how the forgeries were done, the section about magicians and the monuments men parts. ( ) The author clearly did a lot of research for this book. Interesting detail into the efforts by the forger to get his materials - certain hues of oils, the canvases, etc. - to be able to pass muster. It's a bit of a choppy read, getting all this incredible information together - but I found it well worth the effort. If you appreciate art as well as a good WWII story, you'll enjoy it. This an incredible book that weaves the art of art forgery (see what I did there?) with Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler's frenzy for art perceived to be of value, and not "de-generate". The very well researched, at times sad, at other times funny. How the forger was caught was a fluke. By being outed as a forger, it probably saved VanMeegeren life - instead of a Nazi Sympathizer, it made him into a hero who fooled the enemy. The information about art critics, and how they assess a painting well done, and got to the heart of the it- art critics are human, and believe that they can spot a fake a mile off. When evidence is provided to show otherwise, they will often double down on the belief its a legit painting, to protect their "gut feeling" as much as to not be outed as a bad critic. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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