Steal like an artist6/1/2023 ![]() Used familiar, mass-cultural imagery-comic books, advertisements, and celebrity portraits-to comment on America's consumer culture. Unlike copying or forgery, which attempt to trick viewers into believing they are looking at something unique, appropriation hinges on the ability of the viewer to recognize the original source of the image and all of its connotations.Īfter Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup - Tomato, 2011 is available for $494 ), it took hold as a dominant artistic strategy in the latter half of the 20th century. While appropriation-borrowing recognizable images from various sources, from advertising to the annals of art history, and using them to create a new work of art-has a long history in modern and contemporary art (think, for instance, of the use of newspaper clippings in Cubist collages, or Duchamp's famous mustachioed ![]()
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