TY - BOOK ED - Becker, Daniel ED - Fischer, Annalisa ED - Schmitz, Yola AB - 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. DO - 10.14361/9783839437629 ID - OAPEN ID: 1001792 ID - OAPEN ID: 645359 KW - Forgery KW - Culture KW - Cultural Transfer KW - Translation KW - Imitation KW - Original KW - Copy KW - Aesthetic Practice KW - Creativity KW - Faked Tradition KW - Pseudotranslation KW - Imposter KW - Identity Theft KW - Hoax KW - Cultural History KW - Art KW - Literature KW - Theory of Art KW - General Literature Studies KW - Media Aesthetics KW - Cultural Studies L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ecca5c65-8ff8-4b4e-9dac-f8dc94cce13a/9783839437629.pdf LA - English LK - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37308 PB - transcript Verlag PP - Bielefeld PY - 2018 SN - 9783837637625 TI - Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting : Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis ER -