Nostalgia and Imitation

The copy is an act of homage to its original and repeating it is an act of commemoration. It may not be possible to improve on the original artwork, but the copy does offer a pleasing experience, because it recalls the admiration of people of former times for the original. In hisEssay on Tastewritte...

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Zusammenfassung:	The copy is an act of homage to its original and repeating it is an act of commemoration. It may not be possible to improve on the original artwork, but the copy does offer a pleasing experience, because it recalls the admiration of people of former times for the original. In hisEssay on Tastewritten in 1759, the art theoretician Alexander Gerard wrote that ‘similitude is a very powerful principle of association which augments our pleasure’. ‘When excellent originals are imitated’, he explained, ‘the copies derive their charms, not merely from exactness of imitation, but also from the excellence