title: The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (Zone Books)
author:  Hillel Schwartz 
description: <P>The authorbrings his considerable synthetic powers to bear on our uneasy preoccupation with doubles, likenesses, facsimiles, replicas and re-enactments. I doubt that these cultural phenomena have ever been more comprehensively or more creatively chronicled. A book that gets you to see the world anew, again.</P><I>New York Times</I><br /><br /><P>A sprightly and disconcerting piece of cultural history.</P><I>London Review of Books</I><br /><br /><P>In<I>The Culture of the Copy</I>, [Schwartz] has written the perfect book: original and repetitive at once.</P><I>Los Angeles Times</I>
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