Replica
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Illustration: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monstersis a 1799 print by Goya
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A replica is an exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist or a copy or reproduction, especially one on a scale smaller than the original.
A replica is a copying closely resembling the original concerning its shape and appearance.
Sometimes the original never existed as in the printmaking, where only states exist. The original of a print is a woodcut (the actual piece of wood used to print the copy) or the intaglio (for example the copper plate).
However, replicas have often been used illegally for forgery and counterfeits, especially of money and coins, but also commercial merchandise such as designer label clothing, luxury bags and accessories, and luxury watches. In arts or historic cars, the term "replica" is used for discussing the non-original recreation, sometimes hiding its real identity.
See also
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
- Authenticity
- Aura (Walter Benjamin)
- Fake
- Scale model
- Reproduction
- Reprography
