pastiche in French

pastiche in French

What does "pastiche" mean?

1. noun A piece of art, writing, music or building design that copies the style of an earlier artist, usually as a tribute rather than a criticism.
   "He argued that the failure of the future was constitutive of a postmodern cultural scene which, as he correctly prophesied, would become dominated by pastiche and revivalism."
2. noun A piece of music made up of bits taken from other pieces.
3. noun A mixed-up jumble of things that do not really fit together.
   "The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles."
4. noun A postmodern technique in playwriting that blends different styles, genres and plots into a new form.

pastiche in a sentence

• He argued that the failure of the future was constitutive of a postmodern cultural scene which, as he correctly prophesied, would become dominated by pastiche and revivalism.
• The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.
• This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.

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