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Distraction or destruction or just uncovering the cover-up

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posted on 2024-10-30, 15:28 authored by Robert BainesRobert Baines
It seems perception can be a distraction that compromises the authentic statement. Sometimes technical factors can easily be misinterpreted when not tested. An over abundance of copper salt on a heated gold/ copper diffusion area can appear as soldered and too easily dismissed as a fake. Then there are the devious deceptions of submitted art works that become part of the jewellery corpus and a primary reference in the further authenticating of artworks. The destruction of our history of material culture is a consequence. So returning to the personal question, ¿Is it valid for a goldsmith like myself to `play¿ with these issues?¿ Working as a goldsmith it is very easy to build fictitious jewellery. Is it a sin if it is just a goldsmith ¿at play¿?

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Start page

57

End page

71

Total pages

15

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Thinking Through Practice: Art As Research in the Academy

Editors

L. Duxbury, E. Grierson, D. Waite

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RMIT University Press

Place published

Melbourne, Australia

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English

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© 2007 RMIT University Press

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2006007131

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2010-02-26

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