Implementing meanings : the power of the copy between past, present and future : an overview from the ancient Near East
The modern era is characterised by a?challenged authenticity? and a inauthoritative time that subverts both artisanal and authorial intervention. The suppression of the creative act in favour of multiple artworks differently inspired and destined to multiple viewers produces the displacement of the meaning of the artwork: they are not originals, nor strictly?copies?, but appropriations and adaptations for new contents and uses. Such concepts have also triggered new thoughts and a renewed research agenda on the relationship between Original and Copy in classical world. Through the renewed interest in the meaning of copies intended as producers of new knowledge available for multiple perspectives, as well as for different cultural, gendered, and ethnic identities new studies have highlighted that the apparent opposition between Original and Copy is not a modern invention.0For the first time, this book is focused on the topic of?Copy? and its different connotations in ancient Near Eastern material culture
Print Book, English, 2018
Ugarit-Verlag, Münster, 2018