Screen LibraryTheorizing imitation in the visual arts : global contexts /
From antiquity to the present, the theory and practice of imitation have been central to the construction of art. Yet despite a growing body of recent work, imitation is still commonly confused with the practice of copying. This misunderstanding is detrimental to the many kinds of replication that a...
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Art history book series
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From antiquity to the present, the theory and practice of imitation have been central to the construction of art. Yet despite a growing body of recent work, imitation is still commonly confused with the practice of copying. This misunderstanding is detrimental to the many kinds of replication that are negatively compared with notions of originality and authenticity, such as appropriation, quotation, reproduction, citation and reference. Nevertheless it is the act of repetition that confers the quality of originality and authenticity on the model in the first place -- a paradoxical gesture of This collection of essays challenges these prejudices by bringing to bear a perspective that reveals the ubiquity of the practice of imitation across cultures while underlining the homology of theories of imitation from within the various historical and geographical positions that are investigated. Leading scholars bring light to a broad range of areas, some of which have been little researched in the past, providing an invaluable text for undergraduates and scholars of art history, visual studies, and aesthetics, and museum professionals.--Back cover. |
| Item Description: | "Originally published as Volume 37, Issue 4 of Art History" -- Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781119004035 (paperback) : 1119004039 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | N72 |
| CLC: | J0-05 |
| Call Number: | J0-05/T396 |
| Contents: | Why Imitation, and Why Global? / Paul Duro -- Post-Western Poetics : Postmodern Appropriation Art in Australia / Ian McLean -- Essentially the Same : Eduardo Costa's Minimal Differences and Latin American Conceptualism / Patrick Greaney -- Like Father, Like Son : Bernini's Filial Imitation of Michelangelo / Carolina Mangone -- Navajo Sandpainting in the Age of Cross-Cultural Replication / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Copying and Theory in Edo-Period Japan (1615-1868) / Kazuko Kameda-Madar -- Original Imitations for Sale : Dafen and Artistic Commodification / Vivian Li -- The Temporal Logic of Ci |