Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting
Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis
Contributor(s)
Becker, Daniel (editor)
Fischer, Annalisa (editor)
Schmitz, Yola (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101227Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
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 StudiesDOI
10.14361/9783839437629ISBN
9783837637625Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2018Grantor
Series
Edition Kulturwissenschaft, 128Classification
Social and cultural history