The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Faculty and Switzerland

and Switzerland

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

the stories reveal a bygone era and many have the ring of true experience

1815-1860 on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from December 12

In Hockey: A Global History

The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Faculty and SwitzerlandBy 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,