tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post8518466344070515669..comments2024-03-26T10:41:35.852+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: Art forgery: the original and the authenticMarie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-67650801985314703362014-03-23T21:34:11.858+00:002014-03-23T21:34:11.858+00:00From what I have read, the cleverer forger often d...From what I have read, the cleverer forger often does not make close copies of known works, rather they make 'unknown' works by known artists e.g- If a artist is principally known for landscapes then the discovery of a previously unknown still life or religious subject picture by that artist will excite interest and will also help 'explain' why the work looks a bit different or less practiced, than the standard known works by that artist. <br /><br />Another not uncommon form of forgery consists of forging the signature on a art work (from the same time/place).<br /><br />The question of 'originality' and fake in the case of post-modern artworks such as Warhols multiples or Duchamp's urinal can be a bit of a self-reflexive paradox:is a genuine unoriginal factory product , genuine? - Yes, No, and Neither. john r walkerhttp://johnrwalker.com.au/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-50993578920966175532014-03-20T13:16:15.809+00:002014-03-20T13:16:15.809+00:00Excellent blogpost, many thanks! Mira raised an in...Excellent blogpost, many thanks! Mira raised an interesting question: What represents an “original” artistic expression for our own time? Few years ago a dispute in Hungary based on the question whether „borrowing” ideas or even passages from other books is mere plagiarism or some form of intertextuality. After the discussion whether the debut novel by Helene Hegemann was plagiarism or intertextual mixing, Sigfrid Gauch, a German writer, accused Péter Esterházy, one of the best-known contemporary Hungarian writers of theft saying that the novel ‘Harmonia Caelestis’ (2000) [Celestial Harmonies] contained entire paragraphs taken from his novel ‘Vaterspuren’ [Traces of my Father]. Esterházy pointed out later that the borrowed texts are placed in a new, individual context.<br /><br />The Berne Convention describes protectable “literary and artistic works” in the most encompassing terms as “every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form its expression". Although the Convention nowhere defines “author” or “work”, according to Goldstein, the normal standard for protection of literary and artistic works, applied across both common law and civil law systems, is that the work distinctively be the product of its author’s efforts and not copied from some other work or works.<br /><br />However, the dichotomy 'original work - copy' meets nowadays the challenges of new approaches (ie. intertextuality). Sándor Radnóti,an aesthetician and a literary man from Hungary wrote, the type of the literary motive should be (possibly fraudulent) reworking of the literary influence, the variation, the paraphrase or pastiche of another writer’s work, presented as original. Péter Esterházy’s ‘Harmonia Caelestis’ even introduces, as a literary manifestation of and a literary response, a new era in cultural conditions, reaching beyond postmodernism.<br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13393677119646764668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-35916517690070541132014-03-20T13:15:11.288+00:002014-03-20T13:15:11.288+00:00From time to time exhibits displaying fakes seem t...From time to time exhibits displaying fakes seem to crop up in various places. I'm not sure there is much to admire or celebrate but there is plenty to learn from them. In many instances the fakes can ruin and destroy an artists body of work beyond repair. One only need to look to Canada where the Norval Morrisseau debate has raged on for years. On a positive note, this fraud now appears to be near it's end. The depth of the Morrisseau fraud appears to include more than 2 dozen persons and several forgers. Rumour now has it that several individuals have already flipped as some players are now in damage control and attempting to distance themselves from the fraud, and point the finger at several high profile and long term promoters of this scheme. This will certainly be a topic of great discussion later this summer. As far as Bansky goes? the mystery of the man is as good as his art.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-13341597077897224172014-03-18T14:17:37.940+00:002014-03-18T14:17:37.940+00:00As ever, Mira provides much to stimulate discussio...As ever, Mira provides much to stimulate discussion. I rather like the further twist to this already complicated subject, provided by the work of Banksy. Starting from the stand point that much of his work is 'illegal' in the sense that it amounts to criminal damage, his works are now so highly sort after that others go to the trouble of taking down walls bearings his distinctive images to cash in on the phenomenon. At the same time, the artist remains (notionally) aloof from this aftermarket and refuses to verify works which are his and which are the work of a copycat. (Although see this article in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/18/justin-bieber-banksy-tattoo-graffiti-artist_n_4984389.html" rel="nofollow">Huffington Post</a> for another take on this aspect.) Can it be claimed that the copyist is actually trying to hide their creative personality behind that of Banksy, and if so for what reason? Since the copyist too is likely to be creating his art in an illegal manner he cannot benefit financially from forgery, but he can probably earn much kudos among his fellow graffiti artists for his skill and wit. <br />All of this shows how the law can be tied in knots, not just in terms of copyright and moral rights but also about title in the works themselves.Andy Jnoreply@blogger.com