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

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Becker, Annalisa Fischer, Simone Niehoff, Florencia Sannders, Yola Schmitz
• Assisted by: Daniel Becker (Editor), Annalis Fischer (Editor), Annalisa Fischer (Editor), Simo Niehoff (Editor), Simone Niehoff (Editor), Florencia Sannders (Editor), Yola Schmitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783837637625
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3762-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 225 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: 57 schw.-w. Abb.
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft; Edition Kulturwissenschaft; Culture & Theory; Culture & Theory (COL)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kulturgeschichte, Fälschung, Kunsttheorie, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Kunstfälschung, Kunstdiebstahl, Geschichte / Kulturgeschichte, 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 Stud