The Deceivers : Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Briefel, Aviva
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literatuur (fictie en non-fictie)
Identiteit.
Vervalsing.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Forgery in literature.
Fiction.
Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
Art > Forgeries.
Art and society.
ART > History > Romanticism.
Art et societe > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Art > Faux > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Roman > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Authenticite (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Identite dans la litterature.
Faux dans la litterature.
Art and society > History > 19th century.
Art > Forgeries > History > 19th century.
Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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