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Pastiche

March 05, 2024

For other uses, see Pastiche (disambiguation).

A pastiche 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.[1] Unlike parody, pastiche pays homage to the work it imitates, rather than mocking it.[2]

A pastiche combining elements of paintings by Pollaiuolo and Botticelli (Portrait of a Woman and Portrait of a Young Woman [it; fr; es] respectively), using Photoshop

The word pastiche is the French borrowing of the Italian noun pasticcio, which is a pâté or pie-filling mixed from diverse ingredients.[1][3][4] 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. Moreover, allusion requires the audience to share in the author's cultural knowledge.[5] Both allusion and pastiche are mechanisms of intertextuality.

By art edit

Literature edit

See also: Dionysian imitatio

In literary usage, the term denotes a literary technique employing a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek imitation of another's style; although jocular, it is usually respectful. The word implies a lack of originality or coherence, an imitative jumble, but with the advent of postmodernism, pastiche has become positively construed as deliberate, witty homage or playful imitation.[6]

For example, many stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, originally penned by Arthur Conan Doyle, have been written as pastiches since the author's time.[7][8] Ellery Queen and Nero Wolfe are other popular subjects of mystery parodies and pastiches.[9][10]

A similar example of pastiche is the posthumous continuations of the Robert E. Howard stories, written by other writers without Howard's authorization. This includes the Conan the Barbarian stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter. David Lodge's novel The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965) is a pastiche of works by Joyce, Kafka, and Virginia Woolf. In 1991 Alexandra Ripley wrote the novel Scarlett, a pastiche of Gone with the Wind, in an unsuccessful attempt to have it recognized as a canonical sequel.

In 2017, John Banville published Mrs. Osmond, a sequel to Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, written in a style similar to that of James.[11] In 2018, Ben Schott published Jeeves and the King of Clubs, an homage to P. G. Wodehouse's character Jeeves, with the blessing of the Wodehouse estate.[12]

Music edit

Charles Rosen has characterized Mozart's various works in imitation of Baroque style as pastiche, and Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite was written as a conscious homage to the music of an earlier age. Some of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's works, such as his Variations on a Rococo Theme and Serenade for Strings, employ a poised "classical" form reminiscent of 18th-century composers such as Mozart (the composer whose work was his favorite).[13] Perhaps one of the best examples of pastiche in modern music is that of George Rochberg, who used the technique in his String Quartet No. 3 of 1972 and Music for the Magic Theater. Rochberg turned to pastiche from serialism after the death of his son in 1963.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is unusual as it is a pastiche in both senses of the word, as there are many distinct styles imitated in the song, all "hodge-podged" together to create one piece of music.[14] A similar earlier example is "Happiness is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles. One can find musical "pastiches" throughout the work of the American composer Frank Zappa. Comedian/parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic has also recorded several songs that are pastiches of other popular recording artists, such as Devo ("Dare to Be Stupid"), Talking Heads ("Dog Eat Dog"), Rage Against the Machine ("I'll Sue Ya"), and The Doors ("Craigslist"), though these so-called "style parodies" often walk the line between celebration (pastiche) and send-up (parody).

A pastiche Mass is a musical Mass where the constituent movements come from different Mass settings. Most often this convention has been chosen for concert performances, particularly by early-music ensembles. Masses are composed of movements: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei; for example, the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven and the Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut. In a pastiche Mass, the performers may choose a Kyrie from one composer, and a Gloria from another; or choose a Kyrie from one setting of an individual composer, and a Gloria from another.

Musical theatre edit

In musical theatre, pastiche is often an indispensable tool for evoking the sounds of a particular era for which a show is set. For the 1971 musical Follies, a show about a reunion of performers from a musical revue set between the World Wars, Stephen Sondheim wrote over a dozen songs in the style of Broadway songwriters of the 1920s and 1930s. Sondheim imitates not only the music of composers such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin but also the lyrics of writers such as Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Fields, Otto Harbach, and Oscar Hammerstein II. For example, Sondheim notes that the torch song "Losing My Mind" sung in the show contains "near-stenciled rhythms and harmonies" from the Gershwins' "The Man I Love" and lyrics written in the style of Dorothy Fields.[15] Examples of musical pastiche also appear in other Sondheim shows including Gypsy, Saturday Night, Assassins, and Anyone Can Whistle.[16]

Film edit

Pastiche can also be a cinematic device whereby filmmakers pay homage to another filmmaker's style and use of cinematography, including camera angles, lighting, and mise en scène. A film's writer may also offer a pastiche based on the works of other writers (this is especially evident in historical films and documentaries but can be found in non-fiction drama, comedy and horror films as well). Italian director Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West is a pastiche of earlier American Westerns. Another major filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino, often uses various plots, characteristics and themes from many films to create his films, among them from the films of Sergio Leone, in effect creating a pastiche of a pastiche. Tarantino has openly stated that "I steal from every single movie ever made."[17] Director Todd Haynes' 2002 film Far from Heaven was a conscious attempt to replicate a typical Douglas Sirk melodrama—in particular All That Heaven Allows.

In cinema, the influence of George Lucas' Star Wars films (spawning their own pastiches, such as the 1983 3D film Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn) can be regarded as a function of postmodernity.[18][19]

Architecture edit

 
The Palace of Westminster was built in a pastiche Perpendicular Gothic Revival style in the Victorian period

In discussions of urban planning, the term "pastiche" may describe developments as imitations of the building styles created by major architects: with the implication that the derivative work is unoriginal and of little merit, and the term is generally attributed without reference to its urban context. Many 19th and 20th century European developments can in this way be described as pastiches, such as the work of Vincent Harris and Edwin Lutyens[20] who created early 20th century Neoclassical and Neo-Georgian architectural developments in Britain, or of later pastiche works based on the architecture of the modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the Bauhaus[21] movement. The term itself is not pejorative;[22] however, Alain de Botton describes pastiche as "an unconvincing reproduction of the styles of the past".[23]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Roland Greene; Stephen Cushman; Clare Cavanagh; Jahan Ramazani; Paul F. Rouzer; Harris Feinsod; David Marno; Alexandra Slessarev, eds. (2012). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. p. 1005. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
  2. ^ Hoestery, Ingeborg (2001). Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-253-33880-8. OCLC 44812124. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  3. ^ Oxford English Dictionary s.v. “pastiche, n. & adj.”, July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/1154136639
  4. ^ Harper, Douglas. "pastiche". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  5. ^ Abrams, Meyer Howard; Harpham, Geoffrey (2009). A Glossary of Literary Terms. ISBN 978-1-4130-3390-8.
  6. ^ Bowen, C. (2012). Pastiche. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. p. 1005. ISBN 978-1-4008-4142-4.
  7. ^ Lopresti, Rob (12 August 2009). "Pastiche Nuts". Tune It Or Die!. Criminal Brief. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  8. ^ Lundin, Leigh (15 July 2007). "When Good Characters Go Bad". ADD Detective. Criminal Brief. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  9. ^ Andrews, Dale (28 October 2008). "The Pastiche". Mystery Masterclass. Criminal Brief. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  10. ^ Ritchie, James; Tog; Gleason, Bill; Lopresti, Rob; Andrews, Dale; Baker, Jeff (29 December 2009). "Pastiche vs. fan fiction. Dividing line?". The Mystery Place. New York: Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Dell Magazines. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  11. ^ Elliott, Helen (22 February 2018). "Mrs Osmond review: John Banville takes on Isabel Archer after Portrait of a Lady". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  12. ^ Garcia-Navarro, Lulu (2 December 2018). "Jeeves And Wooster, But Make It A Modern Spy Novel: An Interview with Ben Schott". NPR. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  13. ^ Brown, David (1980). "Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Vol. 18. London: MacMillan. p. 628. ISBN 0-333-23111-2.
  14. ^ Baker, Roy Thomas (October 1995). "An Invitation to the Opera". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
  15. ^ Sondheim, Stephen (2010). "Follies". Finishing the Hat. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 235.
  16. ^ Sondheim 2010, p. 200.
  17. ^ Debruge, Peter (7 October 2013). "Quentin Tarantino: The Great Recycler".
  18. ^ Jameson 1991.
  19. ^ Sandoval, Chela (2000). Methodology of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  20. ^ McKellar, Elizabeth (30 September 2016). "You Didn't Know it was Neo-Georgian". Heritage Calling.
  21. ^ "An Architectural Guide on Bauhaus-Inspired Projects Around the World". Archdaily. 12 December 2019.
  22. ^ Curl, James Stevens (2006). Oxford Dictionary of Architecture. p. 562.
  23. ^ . Channel 4. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2015.

Further reading edit

 
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For other uses see Pastiche disambiguation A pastiche 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 1 Unlike parody pastiche pays homage to the work it imitates rather than mocking it 2 A pastiche combining elements of paintings by Pollaiuolo and Botticelli Portrait of a Woman and Portrait of a Young Woman it fr es respectively using PhotoshopThe word pastiche is the French borrowing of the Italian noun pasticcio which is a pate or pie filling mixed from diverse ingredients 1 3 4 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 Moreover allusion requires the audience to share in the author s cultural knowledge 5 Both allusion and pastiche are mechanisms of intertextuality Contents 1 By art 1 1 Literature 1 2 Music 1 3 Musical theatre 1 4 Film 1 5 Architecture 2 See also 3 References 4 Further readingBy art editLiterature edit See also Dionysian imitatio In literary usage the term denotes a literary technique employing a generally light hearted tongue in cheek imitation of another s style although jocular it is usually respectful The word implies a lack of originality or coherence an imitative jumble but with the advent of postmodernism pastiche has become positively construed as deliberate witty homage or playful imitation 6 For example many stories featuring Sherlock Holmes originally penned by Arthur Conan Doyle have been written as pastiches since the author s time 7 8 Ellery Queen and Nero Wolfe are other popular subjects of mystery parodies and pastiches 9 10 A similar example of pastiche is the posthumous continuations of the Robert E Howard stories written by other writers without Howard s authorization This includes the Conan the Barbarian stories of L Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter David Lodge s novel The British Museum Is Falling Down 1965 is a pastiche of works by Joyce Kafka and Virginia Woolf In 1991 Alexandra Ripley wrote the novel Scarlett a pastiche of Gone with the Wind in an unsuccessful attempt to have it recognized as a canonical sequel In 2017 John Banville published Mrs Osmond a sequel to Henry James s The Portrait of a Lady written in a style similar to that of James 11 In 2018 Ben Schott published Jeeves and the King of Clubs an homage to P G Wodehouse s character Jeeves with the blessing of the Wodehouse estate 12 Music edit Charles Rosen has characterized Mozart s various works in imitation of Baroque style as pastiche and Edvard Grieg s Holberg Suite was written as a conscious homage to the music of an earlier age Some of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky s works such as his Variations on a Rococo Theme and Serenade for Strings employ a poised classical form reminiscent of 18th century composers such as Mozart the composer whose work was his favorite 13 Perhaps one of the best examples of pastiche in modern music is that of George Rochberg who used the technique in his String Quartet No 3 of 1972 and Music for the Magic Theater Rochberg turned to pastiche from serialism after the death of his son in 1963 Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is unusual as it is a pastiche in both senses of the word as there are many distinct styles imitated in the song all hodge podged together to create one piece of music 14 A similar earlier example is Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles One can find musical pastiches throughout the work of the American composer Frank Zappa Comedian parodist Weird Al Yankovic has also recorded several songs that are pastiches of other popular recording artists such as Devo Dare to Be Stupid Talking Heads Dog Eat Dog Rage Against the Machine I ll Sue Ya and The Doors Craigslist though these so called style parodies often walk the line between celebration pastiche and send up parody A pastiche Mass is a musical Mass where the constituent movements come from different Mass settings Most often this convention has been chosen for concert performances particularly by early music ensembles Masses are composed of movements Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Agnus Dei for example the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven and the Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut In a pastiche Mass the performers may choose a Kyrie from one composer and a Gloria from another or choose a Kyrie from one setting of an individual composer and a Gloria from another Musical theatre edit In musical theatre pastiche is often an indispensable tool for evoking the sounds of a particular era for which a show is set For the 1971 musical Follies a show about a reunion of performers from a musical revue set between the World Wars Stephen Sondheim wrote over a dozen songs in the style of Broadway songwriters of the 1920s and 1930s Sondheim imitates not only the music of composers such as Cole Porter Irving Berlin Jerome Kern and George Gershwin but also the lyrics of writers such as Ira Gershwin Dorothy Fields Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II For example Sondheim notes that the torch song Losing My Mind sung in the show contains near stenciled rhythms and harmonies from the Gershwins The Man I Love and lyrics written in the style of Dorothy Fields 15 Examples of musical pastiche also appear in other Sondheim shows including Gypsy Saturday Night Assassins and Anyone Can Whistle 16 Film edit Pastiche can also be a cinematic device whereby filmmakers pay homage to another filmmaker s style and use of cinematography including camera angles lighting and mise en scene A film s writer may also offer a pastiche based on the works of other writers this is especially evident in historical films and documentaries but can be found in non fiction drama comedy and horror films as well Italian director Sergio Leone s Once Upon a Time in the West is a pastiche of earlier American Westerns Another major filmmaker Quentin Tarantino often uses various plots characteristics and themes from many films to create his films among them from the films of Sergio Leone in effect creating a pastiche of a pastiche Tarantino has openly stated that I steal from every single movie ever made 17 Director Todd Haynes 2002 film Far from Heaven was a conscious attempt to replicate a typical Douglas Sirk melodrama in particular All That Heaven Allows In cinema the influence of George Lucas Star Wars films spawning their own pastiches such as the 1983 3D film Metalstorm The Destruction of Jared Syn can be regarded as a function of postmodernity 18 19 Architecture edit nbsp The Palace of Westminster was built in a pastiche Perpendicular Gothic Revival style in the Victorian periodIn discussions of urban planning the term pastiche may describe developments as imitations of the building styles created by major architects with the implication that the derivative work is unoriginal and of little merit and the term is generally attributed without reference to its urban context Many 19th and 20th century European developments can in this way be described as pastiches such as the work of Vincent Harris and Edwin Lutyens 20 who created early 20th century Neoclassical and Neo Georgian architectural developments in Britain or of later pastiche works based on the architecture of the modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the Bauhaus 21 movement The term itself is not pejorative 22 however Alain de Botton describes pastiche as an unconvincing reproduction of the styles of the past 23 See also editAfter art Appropriation art Archetype Bricolage Burlesque Derivative work Doujinshi Eclecticism in music Fan fiction Fanon Fauxberge Homage arts Mode literature Parody Postmodernism Satire Simulacrum Swipe comics References edit a b Roland Greene Stephen Cushman Clare Cavanagh Jahan Ramazani Paul F Rouzer Harris Feinsod David Marno Alexandra Slessarev eds 2012 The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics p 1005 ISBN 978 0 691 15491 6 Hoestery Ingeborg 2001 Pastiche Cultural Memory in Art Film Literature Bloomington Indiana University Press p 1 ISBN 978 0 253 33880 8 OCLC 44812124 Retrieved 2 August 2013 Oxford English Dictionary s v pastiche n amp adj July 2023 https doi org 10 1093 OED 1154136639 Harper Douglas pastiche Online Etymology Dictionary Retrieved 2 August 2013 Abrams Meyer Howard Harpham Geoffrey 2009 A Glossary of Literary Terms ISBN 978 1 4130 3390 8 Bowen C 2012 Pastiche Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics p 1005 ISBN 978 1 4008 4142 4 Lopresti Rob 12 August 2009 Pastiche Nuts Tune It Or Die Criminal Brief Retrieved 10 January 2010 Lundin Leigh 15 July 2007 When Good Characters Go Bad ADD Detective Criminal Brief Retrieved 10 January 2010 Andrews Dale 28 October 2008 The Pastiche Mystery Masterclass Criminal Brief Retrieved 10 January 2010 Ritchie James Tog Gleason Bill Lopresti Rob Andrews Dale Baker Jeff 29 December 2009 Pastiche vs fan fiction Dividing line The Mystery Place New York Ellery Queen Alfred Hitchcock Dell Magazines Retrieved 10 January 2010 Elliott Helen 22 February 2018 Mrs Osmond review John Banville takes on Isabel Archer after Portrait of a Lady The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 8 March 2019 Garcia Navarro Lulu 2 December 2018 Jeeves And Wooster But Make It A Modern Spy Novel An Interview with Ben Schott NPR Retrieved 8 March 2019 Brown David 1980 Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich In Sadie Stanley ed The New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians Vol 18 London MacMillan p 628 ISBN 0 333 23111 2 Baker Roy Thomas October 1995 An Invitation to the Opera Sound on Sound Retrieved 29 September 2010 Sondheim Stephen 2010 Follies Finishing the Hat New York Alfred A Knopf p 235 Sondheim 2010 p 200 Debruge Peter 7 October 2013 Quentin Tarantino The Great Recycler Jameson 1991 Sandoval Chela 2000 Methodology of the Oppressed Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press McKellar Elizabeth 30 September 2016 You Didn t Know it was Neo Georgian Heritage Calling An Architectural Guide on Bauhaus Inspired Projects Around the World Archdaily 12 December 2019 Curl James Stevens 2006 Oxford Dictionary of Architecture p 562 Alain de Botton The Perfect Home Channel 4 Archived from the original on 7 February 2016 Retrieved 11 November 2015 Further reading edit nbsp Look up pastiche in Wiktionary the free dictionary Jameson Fredric 1989 Postmodernism and Consumer Society In Foster Hal ed The Anti Aesthetic Essays on Post Modern Culture Seattle Bay Press pp 111 125 Jameson Fredric 1991 Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Durham Duke University Press ISBN 978 0 8223 1090 7 OCLC 21330492 Dyer Richard 2007 Pastiche New York Routledge ISBN 978 0 415 34009 0 OCLC 64486475 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pastiche amp oldid 1210439690, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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