The Deceivers : : Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century / / Aviva Briefel.
The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outsi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Golden Age of Forgery
- 1. Imperfect Doubles: The Forger and the Copyist
- 2. Intimate Detections: Connoisseurs, Forgers, and the Thing between Them
- 3. Restorations: Cultural Authority and the Life of Objects
- 4. Real Sons of Abraham: Jewish Art Dealers and the Traffic in Fakes
- 5. Paste and Pearls: Drawing the Boundaries of Female Identity
- Conclusion: Magic Tricks
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index