Posts Tagged ‘quodlibet’
Souvenirs from the Waste Land: An Interview with Alastair John Gordon, Part 1
March 13, 2017
Historically, modern art has prized originality and authenticity. But alongside this tradition runs another set of practices: replication and tactics of illusion. The Romans made copies of Greek sculptures; Northern Europeans in the seventeenth century practiced an illusionistic approach to still life painting called quodlibet, or “what you will”; American pop art reproduced images…
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