Virtual Words, Language on the Edge of Science and Technology (Jonathon Keats)

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Virtual Words
Language on the Edge of Science and Technology

Jonathon Keats

Forged
Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age

Jonathon Keats

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..