The phrase "all this appropriation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of taking or using something, often in a cultural or artistic context, and referring to multiple instances or aspects of that act.
Example: "The artist faced criticism for all this appropriation of indigenous motifs in her work."
Alternatives: "all this borrowing" or "all this usage".
All of this appropriation and conceptual hijinks wouldn't be worth much if Gerber didn't bring something else to the work.
"I am telling you this, of all the appropriations clerks, House and Senate, all of them," said a former senior Democratic aide who worked closely with him, "there was nobody as shrewd or full of guile or as politically calculating as Alex Flint.
"It is clear that the Senate is not going to pass all these appropriations," said Mr. Conover, adding, "And the message is that in a down economy excessive environmental regulations are a bad move".
If you don't pass a budget on time each year -- and complete all the appropriations bills necessary -- then you don't get paid until the job is done.
In the past two years, Congress has taken to lumping all the appropriations bills into one giant bill — this year appropriating six hundred and four billion dollars for this fiscal year and containing all manner of riders that wouldn't make it on their own.
The pieces on view are full of savvy echoes of early video art and structuralist film; kinetic, Conceptual and Pop art and their current derivatives; abstract painting; and, above all, appropriation art — all of it often updated by his generation's democratic attitude toward information sharing.
He talks about what it all means: appropriation, age of internet etc. Sure, sure, I say.
This is a view that, as the BJP piece notes, has gained currency of late, with artists such as Doug Rickard, Ken Gonzales-Day, Pavel Maria Smejkal and Broomberg & Chanarin all using aPavel Maria Smejkalsure in different, often provocandve, ways.
Meanwhile, a grid of blurry close-ups of 1960s actresses on TV screens, with each star's name written in pen on the border, is, with no help at all, compelling appropriation art.
As anyone who's watched Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix series knows, creativity is all about appropriation and renewal.
