Records of Deception: Forgeries and the Integrity of the Historical Record
Автор: Rare Book School
Загружено: 2020-07-06
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Forgeries, as opposed to facsimiles or copies, are characterized by their makers’ intent to deceive. While accusations of “fake news” and “alternative facts” abound in today’s media, special collections also contain examples of documents that have been faked or forged for various purposes throughout past centuries. Although the majority of forgeries were never created with the explicit intention of distorting the historical record, their cumulative impact poses a threat to the integrity of collections stewarded by libraries, even as the ongoing practice of forgery continues to complicate the marketplace for books, prints, maps, and ephemera.
On Tuesday, 30 June, RBS faculty members Brian Cassidy (Type Punch Matrix), Julie Nelson Davis (University of Pennsylvania), Nick Wilding (Georgia State University), and Kevin Young (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), spoke about these various aspects of forgery, as well as bibliographical techniques and other strategies they use to authenticate historical documents, ranging from manuscripts and early-printed books to twentieth-century flyers and zines. Barbara Heritage (RBS) and Joan Friedman (former Curator of Rare Books at the Yale Center for British Art) co-moderated the discussion.
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