Parody: The Art That Plays with Art explodes the near-universal belief that parody is a copycat
genre or that it consists of a collection of trivial and derivative forms. Parody is revealed
as an über-technique a principal source of innovation and invention in the arts. The technique
is defined in terms of three major variations that bang bind and blend artistic conventions
into contrasting pairings the results of which are upheavals of existing conventions and the
formation of unexpected and sometimes startling and revolutionary new configurations. Parodic
art fashions a galaxy of contrasts and from these stem an illusionistic sense of multiplicity
and an array of divergent meanings and interpretive paths. This book an extreme departure from
existing analyses of parody is nonetheless highly accessible and will be of major interest not
only to scholars but to general readers and to professional writers as well. Parody: The Art
That Plays with Art is particularly suited forreaders interested in modernism postmodernism
meta-art criticism satire and irony.
