LSAT PREP 101 Section 1

st 101 / Section 1 Directions Passage Only View Find Text, Type Here U DO P . | AA |Section Time Remaining: 09:44 A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The 21. The passage can best be described as doing which one of motives of its creator are decisive, and the merit of the object itself the following? is a separate issue. The question mark in the title of Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception reveals the study's broader concerns. Indeed, it might equally be entitled Original?, and the text begins by A reconciling varied points of view O noting a variety of possibilities somewhere between the two extremes. These include works by an artist's followers in the style B chronicling the evolution of a phenomenon O of the master, deliberate archaism, copying for pedagogical purposes, and the production of commercial facsimiles. exploring a complex question O The greater part of Fake? is devoted to a chronological survey suggesting that faking feeds on the many different motives people have for collecting art, and that, on the whole, the faking of art D advocating a new approach O flourishes whenever art collecting flourishes. In imperial Rome there was a widespread interest in collecting earlier Greek art, and therefore in faking it. No doubt many of the sculptures now ") rejecting an inadequate explanation exhibited as "Roman copies" were originally passed off as Greek. In medieval Europe, because art was celebrated more for its devotional uses than for its provenance or the ingenuity of its creators, the faking of art was virtually nonexistent. The modern age of faking began in the Italian Renaissance, with two linked developments: a passionate identification with the world of antiquity and a growing sense of individual artistic identity. A patron of the young Michelangelo prevailed upon the artist to make his sculpture Sleeping Cupid look as though it had been buried in the earth so that "it will be taken for antique, and you will sell it much better." Within a few years, however, beginning with his first masterpiece, 22 23 2 24 25 45 zm