Have We Forgotten About the Consumer?
In 1990, Anthony (or Tony) had the wonderful opportunity to attend the British Museum in London’s exhibition, “Fake? The Art of Deception.” The vast displays of fakes included, among other works, ancient Greek coins and Etruscan sarcophagi, 18th-century French and English pottery, Peruvian face masks, Ming porcelain and Zapotec pottery vessels, fake works by Vermeer and Hockney, as well as the all-too-familiar counterfeit luxury watches of today. One couldn’t help but recognize humankind’s unceasing proclivity for fakery.
The curator of the British exhibition, David Jones, explained it this way: “Fakes are, however, only secondarily a source of evidence for the outlook of those who made and uncovered ...
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