Forgery Beyond Deceit : Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome Hardback
Edited by John North (Associate Professor of the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mediterranean peoples Hopkins, Scott (Deedee McMurty Professor in the Humanities, Deedee McMurty Professor in the Humanitie McGill
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What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Rome.
Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas that predominate in forgery studies, as well as the forgery of physical books, coins, and religious relics.
The book examines the cultural, historical, and rhetorical functions of forgery that extend beyond the desire to deceive and profit.
It analyses forgery in connection with related phenomena like pseudepigraphy, fakes, and copies; and it investigates the aesthetic and historical value that forgeries possess when scholarship takes seriously their form, content, and varied uses within and across cultures.
Of particular interest is the way that forgeries embody a desire for the ancient and for the recovery of the fragmentary past of ancient Rome.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:464 pages, 81 images, primarily photographs of ancient art and writings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:27/07/2023
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- ISBN:9780192869586
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:464 pages, 81 images, primarily photographs of ancient art and writings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:27/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780192869586