Theorizing imitation in the visual arts : global contexts

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Theorizing imitation in the visual arts : global contexts

edited by Paul Duro

(Art history book series)

Wiley Blackwell, 2015

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders. This fascinating collection of original essays has been compiled by a group of leading scholars Challenges the prejudice of imitation in art by bringing to bear a perspective that reveals the ubiquity of the practice of imitation across cultural and geographical borders Brings light to a broad range of areas, some of which have been little researched in the past

Table of Contents

6 Notes on Contributors 8 Chapter 1 Why Imitation, and Why Global? Paul Duro 30 Chapter 2 Post-Western Poetics: Postmodern Appropriation Art in Australia Ian McLean 50 Chapter 3 Essentially the Same: Eduardo Costa's Minimal Differences and Latin American Conceptualism Patrick Greaney 68 Chapter 4 Like Father, Like Son: Bernini's Filial Imitation of Michelangelo Carolina Mangone 90 Chapter 5 Navajo Sandpainting in the Age of Cross-Cultural Replication Janet Catherine Berlo 110 Chapter 6 Copying and Theory in Edo-Period Japan (1615-1868) Kazuko Kameda-Madar 130 Chapter 7 Original Imitations for Sale: Dafen and Artistic Commodification Vivian Li 146 Chapter 8 The Temporal Logic of Citation in Chinese Painting Martin J. Powers 166 Chapter 9 Ingemination Richard Shiff 186 Chapter 10 The Image Valued 'As Found' and the Reconfiguring of Mimesis in Post-War Art Alex Potts 208 Chapter 11 History Lessons: Imitation, Work and the Temporality of Contemporary Art Jonathan Bordo 229 Index

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  • NCID
    BB20626220
  • ISBN
    • 9781119004035
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chichester
  • Pages/Volumes
    238 p.
  • Size
    28 cm
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