The transformative power of the copy : : a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach / / Corinna Forberg, Philipp W. Stockhammer, editors.

• Superior document: Heidelberg studies on transculturality
• TeilnehmendeR: Forberg, Corinna,; Stockhammer, Philipp W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heidelberg studies on transculturality.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 pages) :; illustrations.

This volume offers a fresh perspective on the copy and the practice of copying, two topics that, while the focus of much academic discussion in recent decades, have been underrepresented in the discourse on transculturality. Here, experts from a wide range of academic disciplines present their views on the copy from a transcultural perspective, seeking not to define the copy uniformly, but to reveal its dynamic and transformative power. The copy and the practice of copying are thus presented as constituents of transculturality via thought-provoking contributions on topics spanning time periods from antiquity to the present, and regions from Asia to Europe. In so doing, these contributions aim to create the basis for a novel, interdisciplinary discourse on the copy and its transcultural impact throughout history.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Part I: The Copy and Anthropology -- What's in a Copy? -- Mimetic Theories, Representation, and "Savages". Critiques of the Enlightenment and Modernity Through the Lens of Primitive Mimesis -- Part II: The Copy and Reality -- Always Dealing with Reality but Never Too Close to It: Original and Copy in Modern Aesthetics -- The Hegemony of the Copy: The Manuscript, the Book, and the Electronic Text in the Age of Limitless Digital Storage -- Copy and Write: The Transformative Power of Copying in Language -- "Beyoncé is Not the Worst Copycat": The Politics of Copying in Dance -- Part IV: The Copy and Materiality -- The Dawn of the Copy in the Bronze Age -- The Power of Material and Context: Large-Scale Copies After the Antique in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Copies of Famous Pictures in Tadao Andōʼs "Garden of Fine Art" in Kyōto -- Image Enhancement through Copying? Global and Local Strategies of Reproduction in the Field of World Art and Heritage -- How to Be Authentic in the UNESCO World Heritage System: Copies, Replicas, Reconstructions, and Renovations in a Global Conservation Arena -- Colonial Appropriation, Physical Substitution, and the Metonymics of Translation: Plaster Casts of Angkor Wat for Museum Collections in Paris and Berlin -- The Copy of an Empire? Charlemagne, the Carolingian Renaissance and Early-medieval Perceptions of Late Antiquity -- Copying and Competition: Meissen Porcelain and the Saxon Triumph over the Emperor of China -- Copying the World's Emperor: Dinglinger's Great Moghul and the French Model of Absolute Power -- About the Authors.