The Deceivers — Briefel Cookbooks Joachim Homann

Joachim Homann

Brady Art Gallery

when Maine Street was transformed from a rutted dirt road to a paved thoroughfare

Through close reading of literary narratives such as Trilby and The Marble Faun as well as newspaper accounts of forgery scandals

or Khmer history

The Deceivers — Briefel Cookbooks Joachim HomannBy Aviva BriefelProfessor of English and Cinema Studies The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions,