{"id":1450,"date":"2010-01-13T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/01\/whose_art_is_it\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:04:08","slug":"whose_art_is_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/01\/whose_art_is_it.html","title":{"rendered":"Whose art is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a writer inserts a couple of paragraphs written by someone else into an essay without attribution, the end result is not called a collage. If an artist does the equivalent, it is. Art is an omnivore. It will eat anything. The law calls the practice fair use, although the protection the term implies exists only on a case-by-case basis. Since the 1980s, the art world has called it appropriation. The practice predates the movement by a century: It&#8217;s hard to imagine Modernism without it.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, <a href=\"http:\/\/billeppridge.com\/blog2\/2010\/01\/12\/appropriate\/\">Bill Eppridge<\/a>&#8216;s outrage is understandable. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/c-monster.net\/\">C-Monster<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Eppridge, <em>Barstow to Vegas Motorcycle Race, <\/em>1971<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BillEppridgecycle.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/BillEppridgecycle.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"301\" width=\"450\" \/>Seattle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherinepersongallery.com\/artists\/14\/index.htm#\">Deborah Faye Lawrence<\/a>, <i>The Mysterious Allure of Rural America<\/i>, 2008<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"deborahlawrenceruralusa.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/deborahlawrenceruralusa.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/>Undeniable, from Eppridge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The artist used my work to make her collaged work look better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Debatable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I risked my life many times to make photographs &#8212; in this case I was<br \/>\nstanding on the skid outside a helicopter at 500 feet. Seeing my work<br \/>\nstolen in this manner just flat-out offends me because the artist used<br \/>\nsomething that she didn&#8217;t earn or create for her own benefit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s cowboy logic. It&#8217;s true that you can&#8217;t rope a steer from your desk, but you can make powerful art without breaking a sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Back to undeniable: Great image, Mr. Eppridge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a writer inserts a couple of paragraphs written by someone else into an essay without attribution, the end result is not called a collage. If an artist does the equivalent, it is. Art is an omnivore. It will eat anything. The law calls the practice fair use, although the protection the term implies exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}