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Record Nr.

UNINA9910263843103321

Autore

Becker Daniel

Titolo

Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting : Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis / Daniel Becker, Annalisa Fischer, Yola Schmitz, Simone Niehoff, Florencia Sannders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

ISBN

3-8394-3762-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 128

Classificazione

EC 1960

Altri autori (Persone)

NiehoffSimone

SanndersFlorencia

Disciplina

700

Soggetti

Forgery; Culture; Cultural Transfer; Translation; Imitation; Original; Copy; Aesthetic Practice; Creativity; Faked Tradition; Pseudotranslation; Imposter; Identity Theft; Hoax; Cultural History; Art; Literature; Theory of Art; General Literature Studies; Media Aesthetics; Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Table of Contents    5  Preface    7  Six Degrees of Separation    11  Forgery: The Art of Deception    41  The Artist and the Mountebank    59  Aping the Master    77  Fracture, Facture and the Collecting of Islamic Art    91  Shape-shifters of Transculturation    111  Fake Supreme    127  Reflections on Plagiarism in Jorge Luis Borgess Works    139  "I have chosen to write notes on imaginary books"    153  Faked Translations    167  Creating a Cult, Faking Relics    181  Desiring Fakes    199  Unmasking the Fake    223  Contributors    239  Illustration Credits    243

Sommario/riassunto

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.