Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting
Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis
Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates how forgeries must be understood as autonomous aesthetic practices – creative acts in themselves – rather than as mere rip-offs of an original work of art.
The proceedings bring together research from different scholarly fields. They focus on various mimetic practices such as pseudo-translations, imposters, identity theft, and hoaxes in different artistic and historic contexts. By opening up the scope of the aesthetic implications of fakes, this anthology aims to consolidate forging as an autonomous method of creation.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Preface
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Six Degrees of Separation
Seiten 11 - 40 -
Forgery: The Art of Deception
Seiten 41 - 58 -
The Artist and the Mountebank
Seiten 59 - 76 -
Aping the Master
Seiten 77 - 90 -
Fracture, Facture and the Collecting of Islamic Art
Seiten 91 - 110 -
Shape-shifters of Transculturation
Seiten 111 - 126 -
Fake Supreme
Seiten 127 - 138 -
Reflections on Plagiarism in Jorge Luis Borgesʼs Works
Seiten 139 - 152 -
"I have chosen to write notes on imaginary books"
Seiten 153 - 166 -
Faked Translations
Seiten 167 - 180 -
Creating a Cult, Faking Relics
Seiten 181 - 198 -
Desiring Fakes
Seiten 199 - 222 -
Unmasking the Fake
Seiten 223 - 238 -
Contributors
Seiten 239 - 242 -
Illustration Credits
Seiten 243 - 248
27. März 2018, 248 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-3762-9
Dateigröße: 17.1 MB