The Culture of the Copy
Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
Hillel Schwartz
The Culture of the Copy is an unprecedented 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 presence alternately sustains and overwhelms us. (Quelle: Verlag)