Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting

• Auteur principal: Becker, Daniel (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Niehoff, Simone (auth), Fischer, Annalisa (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: transcript Verlag 2017
• Collection: Edition Kulturwissenschaft
• Sujets: Biography & True Stories; Translation; Art; Literature; Cultural History; Aesthetic Practice; Creativity; Arts; Faked Tradition; Theory of Art; Copy; Cultural Studies; Imitation; Media Aesthetics; Cultural Transfer; General Literature Studies; Forgery; Pseudotranslation; Identity Theft; Hoax; Original; Culture; Imposter
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 a...