| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Culture work |
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Culture work.
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| Contents |
Forging truth in Medieval England -- Forging a past: the Sibylline books and the making of Rome -- Forging Czechs: the reinvention of national identity in the Bohemian lands -- Eclectic fabrication: St. Petersburg and the problem of Imperial architectural style -- The blankness of Dali, or forging Catalonia -- The art of forging music and musicians: of lighthearted musicologists, ambitious performers, narrow-minded brothers, and creative aristocrats -- Jean-Etienne Liotard's envelopes of self -- Wrestling with representation: reforging images of the artist and art in the Russian avant-garde -- After the "death of the author": the fabrication of Helen Demidenko -- Facts, writing, and problems of memory in memoir: the Wilkomirski case -- The fascination of a fake: the Hitler diaries |
| Summary |
This collection of 11 essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word 'forge' - to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Arts -- Forgeries.
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TRUE CRIME -- Hoaxes & Deceptions.
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Arts -- Forgeries
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Fälschung
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Vervalsing.
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Kunst.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ryan, Judith, 1943-
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Thomas, Alfred, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2003004077 |
| ISBN |
9781135458201 |
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1135458200 |
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9780203957776 |
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0203957776 |
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9780203957776 |
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