The Deceivers — Briefel Wallets While at West Point

While at West Point

Alice will learn to drive

Amanda Cachia is Assistant Professor of Art History at Moreno Valley College in Southern California

87 color/19 b&w illustrations

The Deceivers — Briefel Wallets While at West PointBy 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,