Hol Art Books

On his New York Times blog, filmmaker Errol Morris is writing a multi-part post about infamous art forger Han van Meegeren. As the impetus of Morris's investigations, van Meegeren was featured in two recent books, Edward Dolnick’s The Forger’s Spell, and Jonathan Lopez’s The Man Who Made Vermeers. Given some of the terrific, engaging and in-depth writing on visual art issues Morris has done before (like his examination of Roger Fenton's famous photos of the civil war) this should prove an interesting exploration for those not already worn out by the van Meegeren story.