The history of a great deal of twentieth century art could be told as a history of theft

Armand Bartos Fine Art’s latest show is focused on celebrating that history of the rip-off, showing art works next to the pieces from which artists brazenly stole their ideas.

via ARTINFO.com.

Comments 3

  1. Ellis Vener wrote:

    “theft?” “brazenly”? Aren’t you stealing from Shakespeare (just as Willie the Shake did from other dramatists.)

    Is he justifying Richard Prince’s ability to use a color xerox machine when he worked for Time-Life?

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    Posted 02 Oct 2009 at 9:19 am
  2. peepo wrote:

    Theft or post moderism?

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    Posted 02 Oct 2009 at 9:49 am
  3. Ellis Vener wrote:

    Post modernism is a much broader linguisticly based approch t oart crticism than just appropriation.

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    Posted 03 Oct 2009 at 8:53 pm

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