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9780801444609

The Deceivers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801444609

  • ISBN10:

    0801444608

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-08-17
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Summary

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 se

Author Biography

Aviva Briefel is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Golden Age of Forgery 1(18)
1. Imperfect Doubles: The Forger and the Copyist 19(34)
2. Intimate Detections: Connoisseurs, Forgers, and the Thing between Them 53(30)
3. Restorations: Cultural Authority and the Life of Objects 83(33)
4. Real Sons of Abraham: Jewish Art Dealers and the Traffic in Fakes 116(30)
5. Paste and Pearls: Drawing the Boundaries of Female Identity 146(29)
Conclusion: Magic Tricks 175(6)
Notes 181(36)
Works Cited 217(16)
Index 233

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