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Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature
Pastiche
Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature
Ingeborg Hoesterey
Traces the rise of the pastiche in the arts and popular culture.
In the last two decades cultural theorists and artists have redefined a genre of artistic expression that for centuries was regarded as both elusive and the pastiche, or pasticcio. Today, highly engaging manifestations of the genre minor can be found in architecture, painting, and mixed media installations; in film, literature, and performance modes ranging from the operatic to rock event; and in supposedly trivial discourses such as advertising.
Postmodern pastiche is about cultural memory as a history of seeing and writing. One of the markers that sets aesthetic postmodernism apart from modernism is artistic practice that borrows ostentatiously from the archive of Western culture, which modernism, in its search for the unperformed, tended to dismiss. Contemporary artists are re-examining traditions that modernism eclipsed in its pursuit of the "Shock of the New" or―in the case of architects―the functionalism of the International style.
Ingeborg Hoesterey, Professor of Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies at Indiana University, is author of Verschlungene Intertextualität von Literatur und Kunst in der Moderne/Postmoderne; editor of Zeitgeist in The Postmodernist Controversy; and co-editor of German Literature and Visual Art from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century and Neverending Toward a Critical Narratology.
March 2001
160 pages, 20 b&w photos, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
cloth0-253-33880-8$45.95 L / £34.00
paper0-253-21445-9$19.95 s / £15.50
Contents
A Discourse History of Pasticcio and Pastiche
Pastiche in the Visual Arts
Cinematic Pastiche
Literary Pastiche
Pastiche Culture beyond High and Advertising Narratives, MTV, Performance Styles
Coda
Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature
Ingeborg Hoesterey
Traces the rise of the pastiche in the arts and popular culture.
In the last two decades cultural theorists and artists have redefined a genre of artistic expression that for centuries was regarded as both elusive and the pastiche, or pasticcio. Today, highly engaging manifestations of the genre minor can be found in architecture, painting, and mixed media installations; in film, literature, and performance modes ranging from the operatic to rock event; and in supposedly trivial discourses such as advertising.
Postmodern pastiche is about cultural memory as a history of seeing and writing. One of the markers that sets aesthetic postmodernism apart from modernism is artistic practice that borrows ostentatiously from the archive of Western culture, which modernism, in its search for the unperformed, tended to dismiss. Contemporary artists are re-examining traditions that modernism eclipsed in its pursuit of the "Shock of the New" or―in the case of architects―the functionalism of the International style.
Ingeborg Hoesterey, Professor of Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies at Indiana University, is author of Verschlungene Intertextualität von Literatur und Kunst in der Moderne/Postmoderne; editor of Zeitgeist in The Postmodernist Controversy; and co-editor of German Literature and Visual Art from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century and Neverending Toward a Critical Narratology.
March 2001
160 pages, 20 b&w photos, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
cloth0-253-33880-8$45.95 L / £34.00
paper0-253-21445-9$19.95 s / £15.50
Contents
A Discourse History of Pasticcio and Pastiche
Pastiche in the Visual Arts
Cinematic Pastiche
Literary Pastiche
Pastiche Culture beyond High and Advertising Narratives, MTV, Performance Styles
Coda
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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December 9, 2009
Hoesterey sees pastiche as a solution of deconstruction, as opposed to neo-modernization as a means of reconciliation. She finds pastiche to be anti-critique, plank parody, anti-conceptualism, and highly pop.
Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature is written in five parts:
1. A discourse History of Pasticcio and Pastiche
2. Pastiche in the Visual Arts
3. Cinematic Pastiche
4. Literary Pastiche
5. Pastiche Culture Beyond High and Low: Advertising Narratives, MTV,
Robert Wilson: The Genre-Hopper as Mystic
Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature is written in five parts:
1. A discourse History of Pasticcio and Pastiche
Adaptation
Appropriation
Bricolage
Capriccio
Cento
Collage
Contrefaçon
Fake
Farrago
Faux (e.g., Faux Faulkner, faux Baroque)
Imitation
Montage
Palimpsest
Parody
Plagiarism
Recycling
Refiguration
Simulacrum
Travesty
2. Pastiche in the Visual Arts
discusses pastiche and pasticcio in terms of painting, sculpture, and even architechture
3. Cinematic Pastiche
Pastiche Noir- Ridley Scott, Blade runner; Wim Wenders, Wings of desire;Lars von Trier, Zentropa.
Double Visuality: The Presence of Painting in Film- Derek Jarman, Caravaggio; Peter Greenaway, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
Short Takes- David Lynch, Blue Velvet; Ulrike Ottinger, Joan d'Arc of Mongolia; Juzo Itami, Tampopo; Steven Soderbergh, Kafka; Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction.
4. Literary Pastiche
Ur-Pastiche-
Jorge Louis Borges, "Pierre Menard autor del Quijote"
Pastiche as Homage Deconstructed -
Goethe Pastiches: Modern/Postmodern>
Thomas Bernard, "Goethe Stirbt"(Goethe Dies).
Donald Barthelme, "Converstaions with Goethe"
Milan Kundera, "Immortality"
Ilya Kabakov, "Looking Up, Reading the Words..."(neo-constructivist sculpture)
The Intertextual Status of the Author-
Christoph Ransmayr, "The Last World".
A.S. Byatt, "Possession"
Cento Pastiche-
Umberto Eco, "Il nome della rosa"
Short Takes:
Tom Stoppard, Travesties
Terry Eagleton, Saints and Scholars
David Lodge, Small World
Heiner Müller, Hamletmaschine
Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
Julian Barnes, Faubert's Parrot
Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania
5. Pastiche Culture Beyond High and Low: Advertising Narratives, MTV,
Performance Styles
Madonna Pastiche
Laurie Anderson's High-Tech Pastiche
Robert Wilson: The Genre-Hopper as Mystic
August 12, 2010
It's not like theres some minor flaws in this book, theres like plenty of completely wrong stuff inside! Like the Blade Runner Part, where Dr. Tyrell was killed by falling from the rooftop of a cathedral?!? And the research is poor. This "detective story" about the missing de Piles Quotation on pastiche is the lamest thing I ever heard. Took maybe 5 minutes to find it.
November 4, 2008
Had to suffer this tortuous piffle at college.... I couldn't understand a sodding word of it.
It is contrived cobblers. It is contrived for thsake of being contrived... It is contrived so as to appear deep and meeningful... yet it just comes across as complete shite.
It is contrived cobblers. It is contrived for thsake of being contrived... It is contrived so as to appear deep and meeningful... yet it just comes across as complete shite.
October 18, 2014
successful in development of context, which was valuable for research in creating a better understanding about 'pastiche'.
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