SIMULACRUM

Simulacrum

Simulacrum, from which means "likeness, similarity", was first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god. By the late 19th century, it had gathered a secondary association of inferiority: an image without the substance or qualities of the original. Philosopher Fredric Jameson offers photorealism as an example of artistic simulacrum, where a painting is sometimes created by copying a photograph that is itself a copy of the real. Other art forms that play with simulacra include Trompe l'oeil, Pop Art, Italian neorealism and the French New Wave.

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simulacrum

Noun

  1. An image or representation.
    a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment
  2. A faint trace or semblance.
    a simulacrum of hope


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