Why don't we copy?

and was Roy Lichenstein a copyist or a disruptive genius?

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This week, I watched the Netflix series Eric, which Benedict Cumberbatch has called ‘painfully funny’. I can confirm there was a lot of pain, but crucially, a lot of pleasure in how the drama plays with the viewer’s expectations.

What drew me to the drama in the first place was not Benedict Cumberbatch; although I am a h…