| Description |
xxii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The Importance of Being (Absolutely) Authentic / J K Lloyd Jones (xiv-xxii, 214) -- Authentically Yours: Intention and Reception / Livia Dobrez (2-11, 215) -- Sir Gawain and the Authentic Green Chapel / Ralph Elliott (12-16) -- 'The greatest realism is also the greatest fakery': The Fictional Biography of Thomas Chatterton / Amanda Crawford (17-23, 215) -- 'Tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide'?: Margaret of Anjou: Shakespeare's Invention / Judi Crane (24-33, 216) -- The Authentic Portrait Reconsidered / Elisabeth Findlay (34-42, 216-217) -- Art: A Rival World - An Aspect of André Malraux's Theory of Art / Derek Allan (44-52, 217-218) -- Fortune and Fortuna: History and Myth Collide in The Mirror for Magistrates and Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus / Paul Campbell (53-64, 218-219) -- Frank Hurley and Charles Bean: Their Battle for Reality in War Art / David Bell (65-71, 219-220) -- Chekhov's Artistic Authenticity: A Reconciliation of Opposites / Geoffrey Borny (72-81, 220-221) -- A Mongrel in the Path: Prose and Poetry by Michel Houellebecq / James Grieve (82-94, 221-223 -- Three Australian Novels: From Making it to Faking it / Patricia Dobrez (95-105, 223) -- Ubi uber, ibi tuber: Erasmus and the Cornucopian Text / Julian Lamb (108-117, 224) -- Personal Letters, Authenticity, and Hybridity: Missionaries' Reports from India / Frances Oppel (118-126, 224-225) -- 'Shadows of accuracy and truthfulness': The Rhetoric of Exclusion in the Case of da Vinci's La Belle Ferronniere / Diana Kostyrko (127-138, 225-226) -- Comedy in Translation: Keeping the Faith / Brigid Maher (139-146, 226-227) -- Authenticity, Dante and True Love in Samuel Beckett's How It Is / Russell Smith (147-155, 227-228) -- Rousseau and Romantic Authenticity / Simon Haines (158-170, 228-230) -- The Authentic Hamlet / Duncan Driver (171-180) -- The Art of Ambiguity: The Speaker's Voice in Shakespeare's Sonnet Sequence / Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawer (181-188, 230-232) -- Quests for Authenticity and the Problem of Artistic Style: The Case of Nan Goldin / Wolfgang Bruckle (189-196, 232-233) -- Art, Illness and Authenticity: On Being Unable to Be / Havi Carel (197-204, 233-234) -- Neurath, Heidegger and an Authentic Life / Jeremy Shearmur (205-213, 234-235) |
| Summary |
Authenticity is a formidable word, a dangerous word, a word whereby fortunes, careers and reputations can be won or lost. But what has authenticity to do with art? The essays in this book focus on their turbulent relationship ranging across the fields of literature and the visual arts and philosophy, and covering topics as diverse as fictional biography, portraiture, copies and forgeries, war photography, letters as testimony and texts in translation. The reader encounters Erasmus, Rousseau, Heidegger, Beckett, Borges, and Houellebecq; engages with subjects as varied as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, da Vinci's La Belle Ferronnière, and Million Dollar Baby |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Arts -- Philosophy.
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Authenticity (Philosophy)
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Author |
Lamb, Julian.
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Lloyd-Jones, Jan.
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| ISBN |
9781921509131 (paperback) |
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