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.

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Preface
Six Degrees of Separation. The Foax as More
Forgery: The Art of Deception
The Artist and the Mountebank. Rochesterʼs Alexander Bendo and the Dynamics of Forgery and Illusion in 17th-Century Art
Aping the Master. 19th-Century Voltaire Pastiches and the Anxieties of Modern Authorship
Fracture, Facture and the Collecting of Islamic Art
Shape-shifters of Transculturation. Giovanni Bastianiniʼs Forgeries as Embodiment of an Aesthetic Patriotism
Fake Supreme. William Gaddis and the Art of Recognition
Reflections on Plagiarismin Jorge Luis Borgesʼs Works. The case of Pablo Katchadjianʼs El Aleph engordado
“I have chosen to write notes on imaginary books”. On the Forgery of Textual Sources
Faked Translations. James Macphersonʼs Ossianic Poetry
Creating a Cult, Faking Relics. The Case of St. Dominic of Soriano
Desiring Fakes. AI, Avatars, and the Body of Fake Information in Digital Art
Unmasking the Fake. Theatrical Hoaxes from the Dreadnought Hoax to Contemporary Artivist Practice
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