Famous artists signing work from others

[Anna Cadona]

Does anyone have knowledge of how widespread the phenomenom is? One
person just told me that "all Italian art is like Thomas Kincaid's"
meaning that it was "factory made" and the famous artist does a few
touch-ups and signs his name to it. There is also a movie about Camille
Claudel whose work Rodin signs his name to. I am very curious to know
how widespread this is and how important this is in art history.

[Matthew]

It was as common as eating your breakfast, believe me.

Mail me and I'll get more details for you, if your interested.

Also, check this out:

http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~mworkman

[MAvenali]

The notion of originality and authorship was pointed out in Susan Miller's
post (Sept. 17, 1995) as was her suggestion to look at Rosalind Krauss's
discussion of Rodin. A contemporary artist who deals with the concept of
origin and the notion of originality is the photographer Sherrie Levine,
who re-photographs images by Edward Weston and Eliot Porter. (See Krauss,
"The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition", in Art
After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. Krauss's postmodernist
discourse of the copy might be an interesting topic for further
discussion.

MAvenali

[Laura Valentino]

Anna Cadona <anna....@3do.com> wrote:
>Does anyone have knowledge of how widespread the phenomenom is?

Here's a related issue: There are examples of paintings that were thought to be done by a
certain master painter which immediately decreased in value when discovered to be the
work of one of their students.

Laura