From the Copy to the Fake to the ‘Second Original’

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6658
dc.title	From the Copy to the Fake to the ‘Second Original’. Slippage of Sense and Meaning between Material and Virtual
dc.contributor.author	Lombardi Laura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2021/1/dalla-copia-al-falso-al-secondo-originale/
dc.description.abstract	The article investigates the relationship between ‘copy’ and ‘fake’ and the ambiguous status of these definitions in the artistic practices of recent decades. Episodes narrated in art history primary sources are compared with twentieth and twenty-first-century episodes. Thus, one comes to the notion of fake in contemporaneity, which no longer has a negative meaning. On the contrary, it has become an acknowledged artistic practice, a means that reveals the mise-en-scène that each image represents by declaring itself as ‘true’. Also, the notion of a ‘second original’, obtained thanks to contemporary technologies, calls into question the Benjaminian notion of the artwork’s ‘aura’.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 30 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2021-09-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2021/07/009
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aura
dc.subject	Aura
dc.subject	Contemporary art
dc.subject	Contemporary art
dc.subject	Copy
dc.subject	Copy
dc.subject	Fake
dc.subject	Fake
dc.subject	‘Second original’
dc.subject	‘Second original’

Research Article
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Slippage of Sense and Meaning between Material and Virtual

Laura Lombardi Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Italia

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abstract

The article investigates the relationship between ‘copy’ and ‘fake’ and the ambiguous status of these definitions in the artistic practices of recent decades. Episodes narrated in art history primary sources are compared with twentieth and twenty-first-century episodes. Thus, one comes to the notion of fake in contemporaneity, which no longer has a negative meaning. On the contrary, it has become an acknowledged artistic practice, a means that reveals the mise-en-scène that each image represents by declaring itself as ‘true’. Also, the notion of a ‘second original’, obtained thanks to contemporary technologies, calls into question the Benjaminian notion of the artwork’s ‘aura’.

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Dec. 21, 2021

Accepted

Sept. 13, 2021

Submitted

July 1, 2021

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Keywords: Contemporary art • Aura • ‘Second original’ • Fake • Copy

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