Provenance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2958227 |
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| Authors | Alex Danchev (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-33 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14797580500421952 |
| OpenAlex | W4256303186 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article scrutinizes the provenance of one of the great masterpieces of modern art, ‘The Guitar Player’ (1914) by Georges Braque, to uncover its life story: the narrative arc of a life peculiarly evocative of the terrible twentieth century. The provenance of a work of art is a kind of potted biography, and a proof of authenticity. These notions also find expression in politics. Prime ministers and presidents ransack their own biographies to craft a mythic arc. Authenticity is the Holy Grail. Authenticity, however, is not what it seems. Me waiting until I was nearly fifty To credit marvels. (Heaney 1998 Heaney, S. 1998. “Fosterling”. In Opened Ground, London: Faber. [Google Scholar], p. 357)
Art · Art history · Biography · Craft · Holy Grail · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Provenance · Visual arts · Computer Science · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Highly cited | No |
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