Definitions
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- noun therapy A therapeutic technique in which the client is encouraged to consider possible alternate causes for events
- noun art The process of determining whether
artwork is real or fake, and, if fake, determining when and by whom it was created.
Etymologies
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Examples
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By contrast, last year's reattribution to Velázquez of the Met's "Portrait of a Man," ca. 1630, was accompanied by an engrossing and convincing dossier exhibition.
Lee Rosenbaum: Met's Rediscovered Velázquez: "Philip IV" Falls Flat Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Liberty Capital group's revenue declined 41% in the quarter to $91 million, mainly due to the reattribution of Starz Media to Liberty Starz.
Liberty Media's QVC, Starz Earnings Increase Nat Worden 2011
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By contrast, last year's reattribution to Velázquez of the Met's "Portrait of a Man," ca. 1630, was accompanied by an engrossing and convincing dossier exhibition.
Lee Rosenbaum: Met's Rediscovered Velázquez: "Philip IV" Falls Flat Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Yet the rate of reattribution matches that of the Old Masters that Walters bought through other dealers and is much lower than for the art that Walters bought on his own.
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One concerns attribution, misattribution and reattribution.
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I'm wondering if - as a result of the biography, and now the PBS documentary - if there is going to be any reattribution of music that was formerly credited, you know, solely to Duke Ellington to expand the attribution to Billy Strayhorn.
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This reattribution involves Mr. Ogburn in a gigantic conspiracy theory, one that soon collapses under its own weight.
'The Second-Best Bed' Ogburn, Charlton 1992
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Before its renewed reattribution, the painting had been estimated to sell for $70,000 to $100,000 on Wednesday.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Here are two little causes for joy: a reattribution, in Dallas, and a reclamation-release, in New York. announced that it owned a George Romney, not a painting by an unknown, probably American colonial artist, perhaps Ralph Earl.
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That sale of Australia realizing 450 million pounds of capital, in our minds, frankly, that funded the reattribution of the inherited estate and that was a business earning about 40
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