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

15.01.2018

fakingcover1710Daniel Becker, Annalisa Fischer, Yola Schmitz (eds.): Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting: Discredited Practices at the Margins of MimesisBielefeld: transcript, 2018.

Booklaunch: 25 January 2018 in Room M 110 after the lecture series "Frankensteins Erbe" (18-20.00) till 22.00.

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.

With contributions by Friedrich Teja Bach (Vienna), Daniel Becker (Munich), Klaus Benesch (Munich), Laura Fenelli (Florence), Margaret S. Graves (Bloomington, IN), Jacqueline Hylkema (Leiden), Henry Keazor (Heidelberg), Laura Kohlrausch (Munich), Manuel Mühlbacher (Munich), Simone Niehoff (Munich), Tina Öcal (Heidelberg), Florencia Sannders (Munich), and Yola Schmitz (Munich).

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