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Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol

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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 ab...
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  • 08 December 2016
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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 œuvre, 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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Price: $114.00
Pages: 204
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Faux Titre
Publication Date: 08 December 2016
ISBN: 9789004326170
Format: Hardcover
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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 créateur, 59.1.
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 française.