An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner. With Sting in the Tale, Antoinette LaFarge has crafted a masterful study of fictive art — a genre of geofictions, fictive museums, art movements, and invented persona which predate and challenge our current affliction of alternative facts and terrifying political fabulations. At once entertaining and edifying, this scrupulously researched study is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, bound to generate significant debate for years to come. If Philip K. Dick invented an academic historian to define and taxonomize the interdisciplinary genre of our age, Antoinette LaFarge would be it.
— Thyrza Nichols Goodeve