The phenomenon of copying is as old as art itself. Yet today, in the age of ‘copy & paste’, questions about the significance of originality are topical – sometimes even explosive – in a way rarely seen before.
This publication is intended as a compendium, whose role is to comprehensively examine, for the first time, the variety of forms, functions and motivations inherent in copying. It does this using selected examples from an image-based and art-historical perspective. The selection features works ranging from those produced in the late Middle Ages, through the Modernist period to contemporary art and the world of the Internet.

Artists (among others)
Albrecht Dürer, David Teniers d. J., Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Giorgio de Chirico, Elaine Sturtevant, Cindy Sherman and Hiroshi Sugimoto