Her appropriation of collage imagery owes a debt to the German Dadaist and Communist satirist John Heartfield.
There's been a lot of discussion recently surrounding Iggy Azalea and her appropriation – possibly misappropriation – of African American culture.
Comparing Swift's approach to Miley Cyrus's much-censured twerkery last year, Hopper wrote: "Miley used women of color as props, but her appropriation was participatory.
Minaj's many public personas – specifically her appropriation of Barbie – have emphasised the plastic over the personal, which, for some, has called into question her authenticity as a musician.
Her appropriation of the ideas and terminology of various French theorists Jacques Derrida as well as Barthes and Lacan became fashionable among postmodern artists and critics from the 1970s onward.
In specific terms, her appropriation of some sticks of dynamite (theatrical props), and constructions of spiky "explosions" of wood – "cartoon-like visualisations of energy yet to find a place to go" – prefigured her later use of actual explosives.
You might admire Silverman's boldness, or you might feel that there's something sneaky in her appropriation of slurs that never wounded her — that it's the standup equivalent of the person who cuts in line and then can't believe you object.
The Sea House by Esther Freud 277pp, Hamish Hamilton, £14.99 Fans of Esther Freud will find much to recognise and admire in this radiant, kind-hearted novel: her deep sympathy towards the child's-eye view of things; her appropriation of her own and her famous family's history (her fiction often runs indissolubly close to memoir).
You might admire Silverman's boldness, or you might feel that there's something sneaky in her appropriation of slurs that never wounded her that it's the standup equivalent of the person who cuts in line and then can't believe you object.
She said she didn't believe her appropriation of the PSG kit would matter that much, because she was "thinking about the bigger picture, which is that way more people are going to die at sea if we don't do something".
