Inspiration | Imitation | Plagiarism [slightly NSFW]

[pictoresgreci]

Very thoroughly presented...

One should care about imitation in arts because it is determined by wider social consensus.
"...capitalistic mode of production is  in its infancy .....".

N.b.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin (1936)

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

[Suzanne]

People who quote Benjamin always get my attention and in this context it makes extreme sense - also the loss of the aura as "the unique appearance of a distance, however near it may be" is completely annihilated by copying someone else's work.

[Suzanne]

Hmm... and already an update on the Dylan case:

Bob Dylan Paid to License “Asia Series” Photos, Magnum Says

[pictoresgreci]

  An example of good  timing

They say that timing is everything, particularly knowing when to stop.




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8042281/Parisian-flat-containing-2.1-million-painting-lay-untouched-for-70-years.html

[Suzanne]

Yeah, saw that before. If I was good with words, I'd write a book based on that story.

[pictoresgreci]

Oh, If I was well off I would produce a film after it.

[Suzanne]

Two more on the Dylan case:

Richard Prince - of all people - thinks (probably because he's been looking a bit too closely at other people's work too) we need to know his opinion on the matter

Good summary of the case in art magazine (in German)

[thursdays_child]

this is more odd coincidence then anything and i dont think theres connection at all



Book of Hours (use of Rome), Paris(?); c. 1490-1500



the apprentice from the cremaster cycle by matthew barney

[Suzanne]

Haha! That's really interesting. What a hungry little dragon.

[thistly]

inspiration/homage - I loved the not-so-subtle recreation of American Gothic in a recent episode of Dexter


I've enjoyed seeing the way Shaun Tan recreated classic art in his own books/animation etc
http://astrongbeliefinwicker.blogspot.com/2011/04/lost-thing.html





I'm not enjoying the way so many awful young fledgling artists rip off audrey kawasaki, eg  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hannah-WheelerDaisyRockArt/171464166242281?sk=photos 


(this one copied a couple, but when I called her out, she vehemently denied it, claimed to shoot her own reference and removed the other more blatant offending piece. uggghhhhhh)