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- Title
Le miroir déformant des Amériques: Répliques, pastiches et faux en art précolombien. Le cas mexicain.
- Authors
MONGNE, PASCAL
- Abstract
In world's art history copies, replicas, pastiches, imitations and fakes can be almost as old as their models. While many studies have focused on the presence of fakes in Western art, this issue has been the subject of very little investigation in the American context. Still, Native American art, whether pre-Columbian or more recent, is equally concerned by this general phenomenon. It has also been copied, imitated and counterfeited since the XVI century. Beyond the mere detection of forgeries in order to exclude them from public collections, the study of such pieces touches a much wider domain: the history of mentalities and taste. Indeed, influenced by Western thought the "art of deception" becomes successively savage, baroque, romantic and "primitivist". thus reflecting the changing image of the Americas during five centuries. In this context the Mexican production is exemplary and this paper presents its main aspects: américaineries from the XVII and XVlll centuries, Tlatelolco pottery production, "Aztec" crystal skulls, Teotihuacan masks, Zapotec burial urns, Guerrero statues, Veracruz "style", and Monte Alban "imitations". Each one of these categories illustrates a particular impression of the New World, too often obscure, uncanny and feared.
- Subjects
NATIVE American art; IMITATION in art; ART reproduction; ART forgeries; CRYSTAL skulls; URNS
- Publication
Baessler-Archiv, 2008, Vol 56, p125
- ISSN
0005-3856
- Publication type
Article