Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft
• Subjects: Social and cultural history; Aesthetic Practice; Art; Copy; Creativity; Cultural History; Cultural Studies; Cultural Transfer; Culture; Faked Tradition; Forgery; General Literature Studies; Hoax; Identity Theft; Imitation; Imposter; Literature; Media Aesthetics; Original; Pseudotranslation; Theory of Art; Translation
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• ISBN: 9783837637625; 9783839437629
• Access: Open Access

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.