This Is not a Hoax Andrew Dorchak Wilden expands and amplifies the

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This Is not a Hoax Andrew Dorchak Wilden expands and amplifies theThis Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country's most respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and book publishers. This first ever study of contemporary Canadian hoaxes in visual art and literature asks why we trust authority in artistic works and how that trust is manifest. It claims that hoaxes, far from being merely lies