Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Prof. ACL
Objectives
• Define what appropriation in
art;
• Explain the intent of
appropriation art;
• Create a photo appropriation of
an original work.
Copying art to Convey a New Message
By Beth Gersh-Nesic
To “appropriate” is to take
possession of something.
Appropriation artists deliberately
copy images to take possession
of them in their art.
What Is Art Appropriation?
D. The 1990s
• Damian Loeb - film
and
cinematography to
speak on topics of
realism
Sherrie Levine’s homage to Marcel
Duchamp’s Fountain, titled Fountain
(Buddha) (1996); Hesperian Nguyen, CC
BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The History of Appropriation in Art
E. 21st Century
• Zevs
• Banksy
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1661/app
ropriation-in-contemporary-art
https://artincontext.org/appropriation-in-art/
(retrieved October 10, 2022)