Pastiche
Subtitle: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780253214454
Subjects: Popular culture; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Sociology; Criticism; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Semiotics & Theory; Film & Video - General; General; History - General; 20th century; Appropriation (Art); Arts, Modern; Imitation in art; Postmodernism
First sentence: To write a discourse history of the terms "pasticcio" and "pastiche" is nothing short of adventurous.
Description: "Cultural theorists see contemporary society marked by radical hybridity in manifold social practices. Pastiche is about cultural memory as a history of seeing and writing. One of the markers that sets aesthetic postmodernism apart from modernism - nolens volens categories for the author - are artistic practices that borrow ostentatiously from the archive of Western culture, which modernism, in its search for the unperformed, tended to dismiss."--BOOK JACKET.