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ART APPROPRIATION
Postmodernist idea
“If nothing is original, why not just steal shamelessly?”
Historical practice
Selection and manipulation of found materials
Strangely familiar yet new creation
Deliberate reproduction
Copying
Art Adopting intellectual property
Appropriation Borrowing from history or pop culture
Evolved in 1960’s and peaked in the 80’s
Antecedents of Art
Appropriation
Cubist collages and constructions of
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
1912 onwards
The Guitar, Mandolin
Antecedents of Art
Appropriation
Surrealism
Salvador Dali
1936
Lobster Telephone
Jasper Johns
Pop Art
Antecedents of Art
Appropriation
Marcel Duchamp
Readymade
1917
Bicycle Wheel, Fountain
Two Activities in Appropriation of artistic content
Art -Artistic styles
Appropriation Appropriation of items which are regarded as artworks
Two Activities in Appropriation of artistic content
Art -Artistic styles
Appropriation Appropriation of items which are regarded as artworks
Two Activities in Appropriation of artistic content
Art -Artistic styles
Appropriation Appropriation of items which are regarded as artworks
Cultural Appropriation that occurs across the boundaries
Appropriation of cultures
Object Appropriation
-Tangible
-frieze from the Parthenon (Greece to the British Museum)
-Xenaaksiala totem pole (Vancouver Island to the Stockholm
museum)
Types of Art
Appropriation
Object Appropriation
- Intangible
Types of Art -Musical composition, story or poem
Appropriation
Style Appropriation
Types of Art
Appropriation
Motif Appropriation
Les Demoiselles
d‘Avignon, Picasso
Types of Art
-Green Stripe,
Appropriation Henri Matisse
Subject Appropriation
Types of Art
Appropriation
Readymade
Pastiche
Rephotography
Contestable Simulation
Strategies Parody
Replicating
Remixing
Readymade
Pastiche
Rephotography
Contestable Simulation
Strategies Parody
Replicating
Remixing