Subjects of debate include truth to materials, appropriation of images and other detritus, and the challenge of imbuing an artwork with meaning.
The Coens' dialogue is sharp and clever, and they're equipped with cool, postmodern sensibilities that encourage them to treat everything that's ever been thought or said — whether sublime or ridiculous — as material for ironic appropriation.
The Coens' dialogue is sharp and clever, and they're equipped with cool, postmodern sensibilities that encourage them to treat everything that's ever been thought or said whether sublime or ridiculous as material for ironic appropriation.
He said a piece of paper with the password to part of the encrypted files was discovered along with the hard drive and Robbins criticised Miranda and his associates for "very poor judgment in their security arrangements with respect to the material rendering the appropriation of the material, or at least access to it by other, non-state actors, a real possibility".
Thicke and Williams claimed they were inspired by Marvin Gaye, but the court's guilty verdict indicates that their so-called inspiration may have hewn to close to the source material and became appropriation.
For Bourdieu, a field is a "space" encompassing both the production, circulation and appropriation of material goods or symbols (as for example in the fields of literature, art, science, or economy), as well as the power relations between players (individuals, institutions or social groups).
(And then, of course, the winking appropriation of genre material became a convention in itself but that's another story).
If challenged, an artist would have to stand up in court and attempt to prove that the appropriation of copyrighted material was justified because the end result was satirical or funny.
There is an element of improvisation, as well as of memory, in his appropriation of fresh material; and judging by the practice of singers studied from the middle of the 19th century onward in Russia, Serbia, Cyprus, and Crete the inclination to adjust, elaborate, and improve comes naturally to all oral poets.
While the spectacle may hinge on the relationship between visuality and power, this essay observes how signs take on material lives through ludic re-appropriation.
