Original copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol / by Priya Wadhera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wadhera, Priya, author.

Series:

Faux titre ; no. 413.

Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; volume 413

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perec, Georges, 1936-1982--Criticism and interpretation.

Perec, Georges.

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Warhol, Andy.

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.

Perec, Georges, 1936-1982.

Art--Copying.

Art.

Originality in art.

Originality in literature.

Art and literature.

Copying.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 204 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]

Summary:

Priya Wadhera's 'Original Copies in Perec and Warhol' is the first book to explore striking similarities between the works of the author and the artist. 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.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

Part 1 The Copy as Imitation and Enumeration in Perec

2 Copious Beginnings 7

2.1 The incipit of Un cabinet d'amatear (1979) 7

2.2 Defining the Copy 9

2.3 Original and Copy 13

2.4 Mimesis 15

2.5 Copy as copia 18

3 Copying in Literature 24

3.1 Literature in the Age of the Scribe 24

3.2 Literature in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 30

4 Perec and His Copies 36

4.1 Copying in Cabinet 36

4.2 Copies in Cabinet: A Brief Typology 37

Part 2 Pastiches

5 Cabinet as Pastiche 41

6 The Kunstkammer in History and in Cabinet 51

7 The Discourse on Authentication 57

Part 3 Paintings

8 Copying in Painting 85

8.1 The Tradition of the Painter-Apprentice 85

8.2 Fakes, Forgeries, and Citations 87

9 Painting in Cabinet 97

10 Trompe-I'æil and L'æil ébloui (1981) 104

11 From One Canvas to Another 113

Part 4 Intertexts

12 Intertextuality in Cabinet 117

13 An Immediate Intratextual Source; La Vie mode d'emploi (1978) 120

14 An Intertextual Reference: Pierre Grassou by Balzac (1839) 141

15 An Early Intratextual Source: Le Condottière (1957-60) 152

16 To Copy Is to Create: Menard's "Copy" 164

17 The Copy in Warhol: Imitation, Enumeration, and Death 173

Part 5 Conclusion

18 Copy Play in Perec and Warhol 181

18.1 The Copy as Original and Double 181

18.2 Hidden Origins: Fog and Fogging in Perec 184

18.3 A Memorial and a Celebration, a Forging of Life from Death 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-201) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wadhera, Priya, author. Original copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol

ISBN:

9789004326170

9004326170

OCLC:

963439062

Publisher Number:

99970419678