The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture: Between Imitation and Invention (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)

Mayernik, David

ISBN 10: 1409457672 / ISBN 13: 9781409457671

Published by Routledge, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture: Between Imitation and Invention (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409457672
• ISBN 13: 9781409457671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aeneid 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.

About the Author

David Mayernik is a practicing artist and architect, and an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, USA.