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Forgery, Falsification & Theft of ArtworksSeptember 2017Robos, expolios y otras anécdotas del arte viajero
by Federico García Serrano
An illustrated book about the world of art that can be read as a thriller. Paintings contain lots of stories. The intimacy of rooms or the oblivion of storerooms and attics hide the unalterable messages pictures have to reveal. This book gives a completely new approach to art, the intimate life of pictures and their social context. The author explains the different “journeys” many works of art have done over time until reaching their final location. Pictures whose biography wraps them in mystery and adventure. These adventures -plunders, the rise and fall of cultural heritage, fashion, art collectors, transactions or sometimes simply a strike of fortune- have taken them from one place to another.
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History of Art / Art & Design StylesThis Is Not a Hoax
Unsettling Truth in Canadian Culture
by Heather Jessup
This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and book publishers. This first-ever study of contemporary Canadian hoaxes in visual art and literature asks why we trust authority in artistic works and how that trust is manifest. This book claims that hoaxes, far from being merely lies meant to deceive or wound, may exert a positive influence. Through their insistent disobedience, they assist viewers and readers in re-examining unquestioned institutional trust, habituated cultural hierarchies, and the deeply inscribed racism and sexism of Canada’s settler-colonial history. Through its attentive look at hoaxical works by Canadian artists Iris Häussler, Brian Jungen, and Rebecca Belmore, photographer Jeff Wall, and writers and translators David Solway and Erin Mouré, this book celebrates the surprising ways hoaxes call attention to human capacities for flexibility, adaptation, and resilience in a cultural moment when radical empathy and imagination is critically needed.
