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The deceivers : art forgery and identity in the nineteenth century / Aviva Briefel.
- Title
- The deceivers : art forgery and identity in the nineteenth century / Aviva Briefel.
- Author
- Briefel, Aviva.
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN3352.F67 B75 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Deceivers explores the intersections among artistic crime, literary narrative, and the definition of identity. Through close reading of literary narratives such as Trilby and The Marble Faun as well as newspaper accounts of forgery scandals, The Deceivers reveals the identities - both authentic and fake - that emerged from the Victorian culture of forgery."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Art > History > 19th century
- Art and society > History > 19th century
- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature
- Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Forgery in literature
- Geschichte 1800-1900
- Identiteit
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
- Kunstfälschung
- Kunstfälschung
- Literatuur (fictie en non-fictie)
- Vervalsing
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : the golden age of forgery -- Imperfect doubles : the forger and the copyist -- Intimate detections : connoisseurs, forgers, and the thing between them -- Restorations : cultural authority and the life of objects -- Real sons of Abraham : Jewish art dealers and the traffic in fakes -- Paste and pearls : drawing the boundaries of female identity -- Conclusion : magic tricks.
- ISBN
- 9780801444609
- 0801444608
- LCCN
- 2006006530
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library