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deattribute + -ion
Noun
deattribution (plural deattributions)
- Discontinuance of attributing a work of art or literature, etc. to a particular creator, especially in a case where a work is reassigned from a prominent creator to a lesser or unknown creator.
1986 September 30, Douglas C. McGill, “Met to Relabel 2 of Its ‘Rembrandts’”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 September 2015:Deattribution of Rembrandt paintings has been going on among art historians for decades, constantly winnowing a corpus inflated by the 17th- and 18th-century practice of regarding many works simply in Rembrandt's style as "by the master."
2006, W. Stanley Taft Jr., James W. Mayer, The Science of Paintings, →ISBN, page 9:Attributions, deattributions, and reattributions are often more easily made after reviewing x-radiographs, infrared reflectograms, dendrochronological data, and pigment analyses.
2009 April 24, “A Dead Soldier (17th century), Anonymous Italian”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 25 September 2015:[I]n the world of art, authors are always dying off. Works that were previously assigned to a known name, works that were among the most famous, find themselves stranded in anonymity. The process is called de-attribution.
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