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An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)—a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact.
While other Web-based poetry movements exploit appropriated text — cutting and pasting or scooping vast amounts of preëxisting data — Alt Lit tends to use emo-heavy, homespun language, bearing the urgency and candor of a status update; no sentiment is too trite to be repurposed as poetry.
This is also why he chose to entertain the White House with the reading of traffic reports -- something that truly amused the audience and not least President Barack Obama: "The weirdest, most avant-garde, most appropriated text was the one that got the biggest response because it was in the language that everybody could understand -- it was vernacular".
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Zines are small-circulation self-published works of original or appropriated texts and images.
The decision to identify the authors of the appropriated texts was, he tells us, not his but that of his publisher's lawyers, and he suggests that readers might want to scissor out those nine pages of citations.
Overview A zine is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via photocopier.
In his early zines, Pettibon's sentences are succinct and, at times, base this was before he began appropriating text from other sources.
Succintly put, today's most widely discussed avant-garde/post-avant literature tends to appropriate texts in bulk and then denominate them "Art" merely by moving them from one context to another.
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