December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Appropriation is the act of taking work by another artist and presenting it in a new context as original.
• Appropriation highlights the radical idea that art is something whose meaning is as much defined by its context as by anything built into, or contained by, an artwork.
• The process of appropriation and re-presentation is known as recontextualization. It naturally invites questions about the nature of originality, authorship, authenticity, and uniqueness.
• Appropriation is closely related to the art of the readymade but differs because it involves the reuse of a work already intended to be art.
• Many appropriationists have been sued over copyright issues.
See also Conceptual Art • Quoting • Readymades
Richard Pettibone ...