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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Briefel, Aviva
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.