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Authenticity
A quality of freshness or truthfulness—often in artwork related to the self—that ideally feels struggled for rather than bought or easily attained.
"His early works felt really authentic but once I learned that he'd paid the models to go on road trips with him it ruined the later stuff for me."

"Her constant, questing re-working of the sculptures and soundtrack brings authenticity to the installations about her traumatic childhood.”
Donated by Lucy Soutter