Frank WynneArt is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity
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The idea that art is a business and not a hobby or passion is a misconception. Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is “authenticity.” With the help of some skilled fakers, this deception can be pulled off. The "artist" produces many works that are, in fact, bogus. These fake pieces are then sold to gullible buyers, who believe their purchases to be real.
Source: I Was Vermeer: The Rise And Fall Of The Twentieth Centurys Greatest Forger
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