Dr Tom Flynn will be giving an overview of the most significiant and notorious cases of art forgery over the last 150 years.
Tom will be talking to us about the most significant and notorious cases of art forgery over the last 150 years, focusing on the core motivations of art forgers and explaining how the majority of the most prominent started out as failed artists, whose rejection by the art world led to a desire to exact revenge. Tom will also explore why we express admiration and even love for a painting, only for that love to turn into bitter hatred and a sense of betrayal once we are told it is a forgery, even though the object itself has not changed.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Dr Tom Flynn
Dr Tom Flynn is a UK-based art historian, writer and art consultant. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Art History from the University of Sussex, a Masters in Design History from the Royal College of Art and a doctorate from the University of Sussex. His interests include contemporary art; sculpture history; museology and the history of museums; art crime; issues in cultural heritage; and the historical development and professional practice of the European art markets.
He is Senior Lecturer at Christie’s Education, Adjunct Professor at Richmond, the American International University in London, visiting Senior Lecturer at Kingston School of Art, and teaches at a number of other UK and European universities. He has taught for many years on the summer Post-Graduate Certificate in Art Crime and
Cultural Heritage Protection Studies at the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA) in Amelia, Umbria, Italy. A former Henry Moore Foundation post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Sussex, he has written for numerous international art publications and is the author of The Body in Sculpture (Everyman Art Library, 1998), and co-editor (with Dr Tim Barringer) of Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum (Routledge, 1997). He has written monographs on a number of British contemporary sculptors, including Sean Henry, Terence Coventry and Charlotte Meyer. His most recent book, The A to Z of the International Art Market was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2016 and published in a Chinese edition in 2019.
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