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The Deceivers - Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Deceivers - Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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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 outside the realm of art. Although
art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic
traditions, they were fascinated by its power to shape the human
and object worlds and adopted a language of art forgery to
articulate a link between the making of fakes and the making of
selves. The Deceivers explores the intersections among artistic
crime, literary narrative, and the definition of identity.Literary
texts joined more specialized artistic discourses in describing the
various identities associated with art forgery: the forger, the
copyist, the art expert, the dealer, the restorer. Built into new
characters were assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and
nationality that themselves would come to be presented in a
language of artistic authenticity. Aviva Briefel places special
emphasis on the gendered distinction between male forgers and
female copyists. "Copying," a benign occupation when undertaken by
a woman, became "forgery," laden with criminal intent, when
performed by men. Those who could successfully produce, handle, or
detect spurious things and selves were distinguished from others
who were incapable of distinguishing the authentic from the
artistic and human forgeries. 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."
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