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Italian Forgers: The Art Market and the Weight of the Past in Modern Italy by Carol Helstosky is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Italian Forgers takes an unorthodox approach to the fascinating topic of art forgery, focusing not on art forgery per se, but on the major forgery scandals that shifted the Italian art market in response to constant, and often intense, demand for Italian objects. By focusing on power dynamics that both precipitated forgery scandals and forged Italian cultural identities, this book connects the debates and discussions about three well-known Italian forgers―Giovanni Bastianini, Icilio Joni, and Alceo Dossena―to anchor and investigate the mechanics of the Italian art market from unification through the fascist era. Carol Helstosky examines foreign accounts of transactions and Italian writings about the art market. The actions and words of Italian dealers illustrate how the Italian art and antiquities market was an undeniably modern industry, on par with tourism in terms of its contribution to the Italian economy and to understandings of Italian identity. These accounts also reveal how dealers, artists, go-betweens, guides, and restorers worked to not only meet the intense demand for Italian products but also to develop highly sophisticated business practices to maintain financial
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Carol Helstosky
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501774577
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Arts