Title: In Praise of Copying.
Format(s): Pdf.
Author(s): Marcus Boon.
Publisher: Harvard University Press.
Pages: 304.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 5.0 (2); 3.66 (58) at GoodReads
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there: $9.53 (Used-"Very Good" Hardcover); Kindle mobi is $9.99.
Book Description (Amazon):
German critic Walter Benjamin wrote some immensely influential words on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Luxury fashion houses would say something shorter and sharper and much more legally binding on the rip-off merchants who fake their products. Marcus Boon, a Canadian English professor with an accessible turn of phrase, takes us on an erudite voyage through the theme in a serious but engaging encounter with the ideas of thinkers as varied as Plato, Hegel, Orson Welles, Benjamin, Heidegger, Louis Vuitton, Takashi Murakami and many more, on topics as philosophically taxing and pop-culture-light as mimesis, Christianity, capitalism, authenticity, Uma Thurman's handbag and Disneyland.
Chapter Titles
1 - What Is a Copy?
2 - Copia, or, The Abundant Style
3 - Copying as Transformation
4 - Copying as Deception
5 - Montage
6 - The Mass Production of Copies
7 - Copying as Appropriation
Comments: I believe that this is legal
free download due to the fact that it is offered that way on the publisher's, Harvard University Press', website at
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/...se-of-copying/. That webpage further states that the download comes with a Creative Commons License.
URL: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/...-full-text.pdf (direct link).