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Genuine Fakes - How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff (Paperback)
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Genuine Fakes - How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff (Paperback)
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Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy
Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes
from their beloved blockbuster documentaries are staged? Can people
move past assuming that a diamond grown in a lab is a fake? What
happens when a forged painting or manuscript becomes more valuable than
its original?
This is a book about genuine fakes - the curious and complex objects
that provoke these very sorts of questions. Genuine fakes fall in
between things that are real and things that are not; whether or not we
think that those things are authentic is a matter of perspective.
Unsurprisingly, the world is full of genuine fakes - full of things
that defy simple categorization.
From stories of audacious forgeries to feats of technological
innovation, historian Lydia Pyne explores how the authenticity of eight
genuine fakes depends on their unique combinations of history, science
and culture. The stories of art forgeries, fake fossils, nature
documentaries, synthetic flavours, museum exhibits, Maya codices and
Palaeolithic replicas shows that genuine fakes are complicated and
change over time.
Drawing from historical archives, interviews, museum exhibits, science
fiction as well as her own research, Pyne brings each genuine fake to
life through unexpected and often outrageous stories. Genuine Fakes
will make readers think about all the unreal things that they encounter
in their daily lives and why they invoke the reactions - surprise,
wonder, understanding or annoyance - that they do.
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