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Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting : Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis.

Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. They are closely related to historically and culturally informed ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, tradition and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, the volume illustrates that forgeries are thus not to be understood a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript Verlag, 2017.
Colección:Culture and Theory Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface
  • Six Degrees of Separation. The Foax as More Forgery: The Art of Deception The Artist and the Mountebank. Rochesterʼs Alexander Bendo and the Dynamics of Forgery and Illusion in 17th-Century Art Aping the Master. 19th-Century Voltaire Pastiches and the Anxieties of Modern Authorship Fracture, Facture and the Collecting of Islamic Art Shape-shifters of Transculturation. Giovanni Bastianiniʼs Forgeries as Embodiment of an Aesthetic Patriotism Fake Supreme. William Gaddis and the Art of Recognition Reflections on Plagiarismin Jorge Luis Borgesʼs Works. The case of Pablo Katchadjianʼs El Aleph engordado?I have chosen to write notes on imaginary books?. On the Forgery of Textual Sources Faked Translations. James Macphersonʼs Ossianic Poetry Creating a Cult, Faking Relics. The Case of St. Dominic of Soriano Desiring Fakes. AI, Avatars, and the Body of Fake Information in Digital Art Unmasking the Fake. Theatrical Hoaxes from the Dreadnought Hoax to Contemporary Artivist Practice.