In Praise of Copying / Marcus Boon.
Boon, Marcus, author.
2011
BD225 .B66 2010
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Title In Praise of Copying / Marcus Boon.
Author Boon, Marcus, author.
ISBN 9780674058422
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674058422
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (304 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674058422 doi
Call Number BD225 .B66 2010
Summary German critic Walter Benjamin wrote some immensely influential words on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Luxury fashion houses would say something shorter and sharper and much more legally binding on the rip-off merchants who fake their products. Marcus Boon, a Canadian English professor with an accessible turn of phrase, takes us on an erudite voyage through the theme in a serious but engaging encounter with the ideas of thinkers as varied as Plato, Hegel, Orson Welles, Benjamin, Heidegger, Louis Vuitton, Takashi Murakami and many more, on topics as philosophically taxing and pop-culture-light as mimesis, Christianity, capitalism, authenticity, Uma Thurman's handbag and Disneyland.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1/ What Is a Copy?
2/ Copia, or, The Abundant Style
3/ Copying as Transformation
4/ Copying as Deception
5/ Montage
6/ The Mass Production of Copies
7/ Copying as Appropriation
Coda
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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