TY  - GEN
AU  - Becker,Daniel
AU  - Niehoff,Simone
AU  - Fischer,Annalisa
TI  - Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting
SN  - 9783839437629
PY  - 2017///
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Translation
KW  - Art
KW  - Literature
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Aesthetic Practice
KW  - Creativity
KW  - Arts
KW  - Faked Tradition
KW  - Theory of Art
KW  - Copy
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Imitation
KW  - Media Aesthetics
KW  - Cultural Transfer
KW  - General Literature Studies
KW  - Forgery
KW  - Pseudotranslation
KW  - Identity Theft
KW  - Hoax
KW  - Original
KW  - Culture
KW  - Imposter
N1  - Open Access
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 – 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  - http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3762-5/
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47359
ER  -