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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.

Contents 1 Related 2 Compare and contrast 3 Authorship and the cult of originality 4 References 5 Quotes 6 Namesakes 7 See also

Related

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 (1759), Edward Young
• 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

Quotes

"I'm devoted to the principle of originality." --John Cage

"There is no great work of art which does not convey a new message to humanity -- Arnold Schoenberg

Namesakes

• Original sin

See also

• Threshold of originality