The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Faculty Three centuries ago

Three centuries ago

Yvonne Jacquette

Diploma frame features 23k Bowdoin seal set into gold embossed black and gold museum quality matting

following his emigration to Africa

the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo

The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Faculty Three centuries agoBy Aviva BriefelProfessor of English and Cinema Studies The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions,