The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

by Hillel Schwartz

Book Overview

A novel attempt to make sense of our preoccupation with copies of all kinds--from counterfeits to instant replay, from parrots to photocopies.

The Culture of the Copy is a novel attempt to make sense of the Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. In a work that is breathtaking in its synthetic and critical achievements, Hillel Schwartz charts the repercussions of our entanglement with copies of all kinds, whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935408453
• ISBN13: 9781935408451
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher