'epigone' in Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change | Bookmarker

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(noun) follower disciple / (noun) an inferior imitator

To create within the framework of someone else’s stereotype makes the creator an epigone, and their work is mere “taste.”

—p.150 Chapter Seven: Art (143) by W. David Marx

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