What is appropriation, and why do artists use it?

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Art Appropriation as Post-Art

Art eludes all possible definitions and characterizations . Postmodern thought has come to characterize the very ways in and through which we view and think about the world , life and reality . Art , that is , the realm of the beautiful , faces the same predicament . It is in this line of thought that we shift our attention from the talk of universals in

br favor of particulars . Perhaps there is no sense to speak of beauty as something that is universal . This may be inferred from the observation that different cultures have different canons of what is beautiful

Art is a product of human creativity . It is the expression of our primordial desire to transcend our individual finitude and go beyond the horizon of existence . It is , however , important to note that art is also a product of our representations of the world , our experiences as we go through life , and our interpretation of what is real . Suffice it to say that art enjoys the privilege of being an amalgamation of the mental and the experiential . We are not attempting to provide a universal characterization of art , we are merely trying to articulate the various ways in and through which we may characterize art

Art appropriation , as an artistic movement , since its inception , is heavily influenced by postmodernism . Art appropriation , as a technique involves duplication or incorporation of an image , say a picture of a parish priest from an identified source to another context , say in a casino , which of course , produces alteration in terms of meaning and at the same time challenges the very notion of authenticity and originality . As stated earlier , art appropriation is heavily influenced by postmodernism and at this point , it is possible to explain why such is the case . The idea is rather simple and yet liberating for most of its practitioners . The idea is by substituting certain elements of a picture or a painting by elements that belong to different contexts , we are able to produce possible interpretations and reinterpretations which in turn , challenges what Jean-Francois Lyotard calls the `grand narratives ' or universal theories . Lyotard prefers `the little narratives ' of the individual human being (23 . Postmodernism , as a form of philosophy , takes a skeptical attitude to foundationalist discourses which make claims of truth and certainty . It is the view that (1 ) all truth is limited , approximate , and is constantly evolving and (2 absolute and certain truth that explains all things is unobtainable

Let us briefly consider feminism and its critique of logic as a case in point in to show how the aforementioned `grand narratives perpetuate the subjugation and oppression of women . In her work entitled Words of Power : A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic , Andrya Nye proclaims that logic in its final perfection is insane . Feminist such as Nye argue that male...