Concept
Pastiche
Overview
A pastiche (; French: [pastiʃ] ) is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche pays homage to the work it imitates, rather than mocking it.
The word pastiche is the French borrowing of the Italian noun pasticcio, which is a pâté or pie-filling mixed from diverse ingredients. Its first recorded use in this sense was in 1878. Metaphorically, pastiche and pasticcio describe works that are either composed by several authors, or that incorporate stylistic elements of other artists' work. Pastiche is an example of eclecticism in art.
Allusion is not pastiche. A literary allusion may refer to another work, but it does not reiterate it. Allusion requires the audience to share in the author's cultural knowledge. Allusion and pastiche are both mechanisms of intertextuality.
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The effect of instrumental Music upon the mind has been called its expression. In the feeling it is frequently not unlike the effect of what is called the expression of Painting, and is sometimes equally interesting. But the effect of the expression of Painting arises always from the thought of something which, though distinctly and clearly suggested by the drawing and colouring of the picture, is altogether…
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
States what Pastiche is.
For the heroic poem narrative, such as is yours, is called an _epic_ poem; the heroic poem dramatic, is _tragedy_. The scommatic narrative is _satire_; dramatic is _comedy_. The pastoral narrative, is called simply _pastoral_, anciently _bucolic_; the same dramatic, _pastoral comedy_. The figure therefore of an epic poem, and of a tragedy, ought to be the same: for they differ no more but in that they are pronounced…
Thomas Hobbes, The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 04
States what Pastiche is.
The latter talent is properly speaking what is called spirit; for to express the ineffable element in the state of mind implied by a certain representation and to make it universally communicable--whether the expression be in speech or painting or statuary--this requires a faculty of seizing the quickly passing play of Imagination and of unifying it in a concept (which is even on that account original and discloses…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
States what Pastiche is.
Philosophers who discussed Pastiche
Related ideas
- Franz Kafka
- Princeton University Press
- James Joyce
- Cinematography
- Drama
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Postmodernism
- Alain de Botton
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Beatles
- Virginia Woolf
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Indiana University Press
- Henry James
- Sandro Botticelli
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Postmodernism.