In praise of copying [[electronic resource] /] / Marcus Boon

• Autore: Boon Marcus
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 153
• Soggetto topico: Copying; Philosophical anthropology; Mahayana Buddhism - Doctrines
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: In praise of copying
• ISBN: 0-674-26217-4; 0-674-05842-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791682203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II