Research Catalog

Title

The aesthetics and ethics of copying / edited by Darren Hudson Hick and Reinold Schmücker.

Publication

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Hick, Darren Hudson
• Schmücker, Reinold

Description

xx, 408 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying responds to the rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of another's ideas, styles, and artworks. With advances in technology making the copying of artworks and other artefacts exponentially easier, questions of copying no longer focus on the problems of forgery: they now expand into aesthetic and ethical legal concerns. This volume addresses the changes and provides the first philosophical foundation for an aesthetics and ethics of copying. Scholars from philosophy of art, philosophy of technology, philosophy of law, ethics, legal theory, media studies, art history, literary theory, and sociology discuss the role that copying plays in human culture, confronting the question of how-and why-copying fits into our broader system of values. Teasing out the factors and conceptual distinctions that must be accounted for in an ontology of copying, they set a groundwork for understanding the nature of copies and copying, showing how these interweave with ethical and legal concepts. Covering unique concerns for copying in the domain of artworks, from music and art to plays and literature, contributors look at work by artists including Heinrich von Kleist, Robert Rauschenberg, Courbet and Manet and conclude with the normative dimensions of copying in the twenty-first century.

Subject

• Arts > Reproduction > Moral and ethical aspects
• Aesthetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The copying animal : exploring the cultural value of copying -- What is a copy? conceptual perspectives -- The copying artist : aesthetic and ethical challenges -- Freedom for all? towards an ethics of copying for the digital age.

Call Number

JQE 17-187

ISBN

• 9781474254519 (hardback)
• 1474254519 (hardback)

LCCN

2016016216

OCLC

935985873

Title

The aesthetics and ethics of copying / edited by Darren Hudson Hick and Reinold Schmücker.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Note

ED: TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY. COLLECTION OF NEW PAPERS.

Added Author

Hick, Darren Hudson, editor.

Schmücker, Reinold, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Aesthetics and ethics of copying New York : Bloomsbury, 2016 9781474254533

Research Call Number

JQE 17-187