Originality
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- the quality of being original or novel
- the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- something original
- "I'm devoted to the principle of originality. Not originality in the agnostic sense, but originality in the sense of doing something which it is necessary to do. Now obviously, the things which it is necessary to do are not the things that have been done, but the ones that have not yet been done...; that is to say if I have done something, then I consider it my business not to do that but to find what must be done next." --John Cage
- "There is no great work of art which does not convey a new message to humanity; there is no great artist who fails in this respect. This is the code of honor of all the great in art, and consequently in all great works of the great we will find that newness which never perishes, whether it be of Josquin des Pres, of Bach or Haydn, or of any other great master. Because: Art means New Art" -- Arnold Schoenberg
Originality is the aspect of created or invented works as being new or novel, and thus can be distinguished from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or derivative works. An original work is one not received from others nor one copied based on the work of others. The term "originality" is often applied as a compliment to the creativity of artists, writers, and thinkers.
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art - aura - authorship - authenticity - avant-garde - contemporary - copyright - creativity - difference - early - eccentric - experimental - individual - fame - fiction - genius - greatness - influence - innovation - modern - Modernism - new - original research - outsider - personality - precursor - proto - pure - sampling - source - technique - unique - unusual
Compare and contrast
appropriation - category - derivative - copy - genre - formula - hybrid - mainstream - plagiarism
Authorship and the cult of originality
The primacy of authorship and subsequent cult of originality evolved gradually, flowering in the Romantic era and proliferating in the modern age.
References
- Conjectures on Original Composition
- The Anxiety of Influence (1973) - Harold Bloom
- The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985) - Rosalind E. Krauss
- After Beethoven: Imperatives of Originality in the Symphony by Mark Evan Bonds
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