Art forgery is a crime against public trust and it is frequently considered to be a violation of truth, intended as the correspondence between language and reality. Starting from the Buonarroti case, the author compares art forgery and fake artwork, which can have an effect of truth, and tries to explain the legal meaning of authentication, which requires a judicial procedure when the controversy of attribution is permanent. Examining the van Meegeren case, the author concludes the analysis with a critique of the correspondence theory of truth and with the proposal of a dialectical model for the authentication of works of art. Finally, considering the F words (forge, false, fake, fictional), it is asserted in the essay that, in today’s culture, fake artwork preserves the profound ambiguity of truth in fiction.
Fake Truth. The Legal Issue of Archaeological Forgery
Paolo Moro
2022
Abstract
Art forgery is a crime against public trust and it is frequently considered to be a violation of truth, intended as the correspondence between language and reality. Starting from the Buonarroti case, the author compares art forgery and fake artwork, which can have an effect of truth, and tries to explain the legal meaning of authentication, which requires a judicial procedure when the controversy of attribution is permanent. Examining the van Meegeren case, the author concludes the analysis with a critique of the correspondence theory of truth and with the proposal of a dialectical model for the authentication of works of art. Finally, considering the F words (forge, false, fake, fictional), it is asserted in the essay that, in today’s culture, fake artwork preserves the profound ambiguity of truth in fiction.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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