Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
Why a replica is not a fake until someone lies
A copy is a replica when it is called a copy, and a fake when that claim is hidden.
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From the opening
A replica is a copy presented as a copy, whether a cast, a reconstruction, or a later version made so people can look without handling the original. It becomes a fake when someone represents it as the original, or as a hand and a date it does not have, so the lie sits in the claim. The opening covers a copy labeled as a copy, the lie is in the claim, and cast galleries as honest replicas.
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Inside
- A copy labeled as a copy
- The lie is in the claim
- Cast galleries as honest replicas
- When a label is removed
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Museum plaster casts as labeled replicas
- Forgery as misrepresentation of authorship or age