{"product_id":"appropriation-whitechapel-documents-of-contemporary-art-9780262550703","title":"Appropriation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)","description":"\u003cp\u003eImportant documents and appraisals of appropriation art from Duchamps readymades to feminist and postcolonial critique. Scavenging  replicating  or remixing  many influential artists today reinvent a legacy of stealing images and forms from other makers. Among the diverse  often contestatory strategies included under the heading appropriation are the readymade  dtournement  pastiche  rephotography  recombination  simulation and parody. Although appropropriation is often associated with the 1980s practice of such artists as Peter Halley  Sherrie Levine  Richard Prince  and Cindy Sherman  as well as the critical discourse of postmodernism and the simulacral theory of Jean Baudrillard  appropriations significance for art is not limited by that cultural and political moment. In an expanded art-historical frame  this book recontextualizes avant-garde photomontage  the Duchampian readymade  and the Pop image among such alternative precursors as Francis Picabia  Bertolt Brecht  Guy Debord  Akasegawa Genpei  Dan Graham  Cildo Meireles  and Martha Rosler. In the recent work of many artists  including Mike Kelley  Glenn Ligon  Pierre Huyghe  and Aleksandra Mir  among others  appropriation is central to their critique of the contemporary world and vision for alternative futures Artists surveyed include Akasegawa Genpei  Santiago lvarez  Art Workers Coalition  Ross Bleckner  Marcel Broodthaers  Victor Burgin  Maurizio Cattelan  Hans-Peter Feldmann  Douglas Gordon  Johan Grimonprez  Peter Halley  Hank Herron  Pierre Huyghe  Mike Kelley  Idris Khan  Barbara Kruger  Sherrie Levine  Glenn Ligon  Steve McQueen  Alexandra Mir  Keith Piper  Richard Prince  Jorma Puranen  Cindy Sherman  John Stezaker  Retort  Martha Rosler  Philip Taaffe. Writers include Malek Alloula  Jean Baudrillard  Walter Benjamin  Nicolas Bourriaud  Benjamin H. D. Buchloh  Johanna Burton  Douglas Crimp  Thomas Crow  Guy Debord  Georges Didi-Huberman  Marcel Duchamp  Okwui Enwezor  Jean-Luc Godard  Isabelle Graw  Boris Groys  Raoul Hausmann  Sven Ltticken  Cildo Meireles  Kobena Mercer  Slobodan Mijuskovic  Laura Mulvey  Jo Spence  Elisabeth Sussman  Lisa Tickner  Reiko Tomii  Andy Warhol.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529591644213,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262550709","price":251.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262550703.jpg?v=1780938205","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/appropriation-whitechapel-documents-of-contemporary-art-9780262550703","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}