Image from Coce

In praise of copying / Marcus Boon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010Description: 285 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674047834
  • 9780674047839
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153 22
LOC classification:
  • BD225 .B66 2010
Contents:
What is a copy? -- Copia, or, The abundant style -- Copying as transformation -- Copying as deception -- Montage -- The mass production of copies -- Copying as appropriation.
Summary: "This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is a copy? -- Copia, or, The abundant style -- Copying as transformation -- Copying as deception -- Montage -- The mass production of copies -- Copying as appropriation.

"This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha