Pastiche

Quick meaning: Pastiche is a noun meaning A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.

Meaning

A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.

More Meanings

1. A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
2. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
3. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
4. To create or compose in a mixture of styles.

Example Sentences

This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.

The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.

That the genetic code of the platypus proved to be as bizarrely pastiched as its anatomy enhanced the popular appeal of the report, published in the journal Nature.

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.

Word Forms

• pastiches
• pastiching
• pastiched

Synonyms for pastiche

Depending on context, synonyms include potpourri, medley.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include potpourri, medley, olio, autoparody, epigonism, passacaglia.

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