Fake : Dennis Balk [and others] / with contributions by Lynne Tillman, Phil Mariani ; and an essay by William Olander.

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Olander, William [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : New Museum of Contemporary Art, ©1987.
Description
50 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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    Description: Fake, organized by William Olander. "To utter the word 'fake;' to point a finger and say 'fraud;' to declare what was believed to be original 'counterfeit, ' can promote an extraordinary rupture in the social fabric. To create a fake; to perpetrate a fraud; to pass a counterfeit is literally illegal, but in a broader, metaphoric sense, each constitutes a subversive act which, if not prosecutable, is not easily tolerated. Yet, in a global economy increasingly dominated by high technology capable of reproducing copies more "real" than the real thing, the fake is revealed only with great difficulty. Indeed, for a fake to operate as a fake, it must pass as an original, circulating freely in our system of late capitalism, from the art forgery to the knock-off high fashion, from the pirated record album to the copyright infringement."--Catalogue.
    Notes
    Catalog of an exhibition held May 7-July 12, 1987.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN
    • 0915557584 ((pbk.))
    • 9780915557585 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    87042689
    OCLC
    16946847
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