Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting

Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3762-5
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 128, 248 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 387 g

Reihe: Edition Kulturwissenschaft

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becker, Daniel

Fischer, Annalisa

Schmitz, Yola

Weitere Mitwirkende

Niehoff, Simone

Sannders, Florencia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Becker is a member of the International Doctoral Program MIMESIS at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
Annalisa Fischer is a member of the International Doctoral Program MIMESIS at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
Yola Schmitz is a member of the International Doctoral Program MIMESIS at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.