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Priya Wadhera's Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol is the first book to explore striking similarities between the works of these celebrated figures of the twentieth century. Copies abound in Perec's oeuvre, where pastiches, paintings, and intertexts dialogue with the history of copying in the past and present, in literature and in art. Both here and in Warhol's works, the source of the copies is difficult to pinpoint, shrouded in a fog linked to death. This remarkable parallel provides insight into their widely-admired works and a postmodern aesthetic where the original is stripped of its value and the copy reigns supreme. In this study of the original and the copy, Wadhera illuminates the nature of art itself.

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Author:   Priya Wadhera
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   413
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.466kg
ISBN:  

9789004326170

ISBN 10:   9004326170
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   08 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction I. The Copy as Imitation and Enumeration in Perec 2. Copious Beginnings 2.1 The incipit of Un cabinet d'amateur (1979) 2.2 Defining the Copy 2.3Original and Copy 2.4 Mimesis 2.5 Copy as copia 3. Copying in Literature 3.1Literature in the Age of the Scribe 3.2 Literature in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 4. Perec and His Copies 4.1 Copying in Cabinet 4.2 Copies in Cabinet: A Brief Typology II. Pastiches 5. Cabinet as Pastiche 6. The Kunstkammer in History and in Cabinet 7. The Discourse on Authentication III. Paintings 8. Copying in Painting 8.1 The tradition of the Painter-Apprentice 8.2 Fakes, Forgeries, and Citations 9. Painting in Cabinet 10. Trompe-l'oeil and L'OEil ebloui (1981) 11. From One Canvas to Another IV. Intertexts 12. Intertextuality in Cabinet 13. An Immediate Intratextual Source: La Vie mode d'emploi (1978) 14. An Intertextual Reference: Pierre Grassou by Balzac (1839) 15. An Early Intratextual Source: Le Condottiere (1957-60) 16. To Copy Is to Create: Menard's Copy 17. The Copy in Warhol: Imitation, Enumeration, and Death V. Conclusion 18. Copy Play in Perec and Warhol 18.1 The Copy as Original and Double 18.2 Hidden Origins: Fog and Fogging in Perec 18.3 A Memorial and a Celebration, a Forging of Life from Death Bibliography Index

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Four principal questions interest Wadhera: what is a copy, what is copied, how is it copied, and why is it copied? (9). Addressing those questions, she postulates a useful typology of the copy in Un cabinet d'amateur, limning three broad categories: pastiches of art history and criticism; evocations of paintings; and intertextual allusions. Devoting several chapters to each of those categories, Wadhera examines them in pleasing, rigorous detail. - Warren Motte, L'Esprit createur, 59.1.

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Priya Wadhera is Associate Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Adelphi University in New York. She joined Adelphi after having earned her doctorate at Columbia University, where she then served as Lecturer in the Department of French and Romance Philology and Director of the Maison francaise.

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