Beg, steal and borrow : artists against originality / Robert Shore
By: Shore, Robert (Robert M.) [author].
Series: Elephant book (Series : London, England): Publisher: London, United Kingdom : Laurence King Publishing, ©2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780679464.Other title: Beg, steal & borrow [Cover title] | Artists against originality.Subject(s): Appropriation (Art) | Imitation in art | Originality in art | Art -- Philosophy | Copyright -- ArtGenre/Form: Art. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | N72.7 .S56 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000014082 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
1. How original are you? -- 2. Thou shalt not steal -- 3. A brave new multi-authored world -- 5. Gene the art genie -- 6. Remake, reuse, reassemble, recombine : that's the way to go
Art is theft,' Picasso once proclaimed. The wily old Spaniard was being provocative - he often equated theft to what could more benignly be called influence. But increasingly much of the best and, even, most original art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft - an act of simple copy and paste. This book looks at modern-day art theft from all angles: art-historical (tracing the lineage from Duchamp to Richard Prince), legal (looking at recent key copyright cases), cultural (drawing links to literary mash-ups and musical sampling), educational (Kenneth Goldsmith's famous 'Uncreativity' classes) and, of course, in terms of current art practice. It will look at the practices of major artists working across a variety of media