Becker, Daniel <br/><br/>
Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting : Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis 

 - Bielefeld  transcript Verlag  2018 
 - 1 electronic resource (248 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783839437629 9783837637625 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.14361/9783839437629  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social & cultural history
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>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