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The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture - Between Imitation and Invention (Paperback)
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The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture - Between Imitation and Invention (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and
invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as
the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the
pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary
spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the
Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in
the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for
the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice.
Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding
of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in
the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past
and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified
over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for
granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our
understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and
perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to
contemporary practice.
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