TY  - BOOK
AU  - Becker,Daniel
AU  - Fischer,Annalisa
AU  - Niehoff,Simone
TI  - Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting: Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis 
SN  - 9783837637625
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - History / Social History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. They are closely related to historically and culturally informed ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, tradition and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, the volume illustrates that forgeries are thus not to be understood as a negative copy or disgraced rip-off of an original â€" but as an autonomous aesthetic practice, a creative act in itself. The contributions focus on such different implementations such as faked traditions, pseudotranslations, imposters, identity theft, and hoaxes in different arts and historic contexts. Most importantly, they scrutinize the bonds and borders between original and forgery, and turn out their epistemic capability
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/d30f4130-cb4f-41d3-9d83-dba5765bfd85
ER  -