The Deceivers : Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century /
The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outsi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the golden age of forgery
- Imperfect doubles : the forger and the copyist
- Intimate detections : connoisseurs, forgers, and the thing between them
- Restorations : cultural authority and the life of objects
- Real sons of Abraham : Jewish art dealers and the traffic in fakes
- Paste and pearls : drawing the boundaries of female identity
- Conclusion : magic tricks.