In Praise of Copying / / Marcus Boon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Boon, Marcus,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674058422; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674058422
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marcus Boon.

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.