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Forgers and critics: creativity and duplicity in Western scholarship

By Anthony Grafton

Book information

Publisher
Collins & Brown
Year
1990
ISBN
9780691191836, 9780691055442, 9780691192000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (29905482 bytes)
Pages
192\168
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 02:55:24

Description

The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the “criminal sibling” of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individuals―forgers from classical Greece through the recent past―who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, as well as the scholarly detectives who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers. In the process, Grafton discloses the extent, the coherence, and the historical interest of two significant and tightly intertwined strands in the Western intellectual tradition.

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