{"id":1839,"date":"2011-02-19T09:11:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2011\/02\/copycatting_or_just_images_wit\/"},"modified":"2011-02-19T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:11:58","slug":"copycatting_or_just_images_wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/02\/copycatting_or_just_images_wit.html","title":{"rendered":"Copycatting? Or Just Images With Legs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/03\/the_copycat_and_the_original_c.html\">again<\/a>, this time vs. the <em>NYT Book Review<\/em>. You decide.<br \/>\n<small>&#169; 1969 by Norman O. Mustill<\/small><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/10\/down_with_cultu_1.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Images from 'Twinpak,' by Norman O. Mustill [Nova Broadcast, 1969, San Francisco].\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/BigExplosive%20%28395pixels%29.JPG\" width=\"395\" height=\"588\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/books\/review\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Barbara deWilde's illustration for the cover of The New York Times Book Review [Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011].\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2011\/02\/BigSundayNYTBkRvw (395pixels)-thumb-395x296-19148.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"296\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/down_with_culture_up_with_barb.html\"><big><strong>images<\/strong><\/big><\/a> are from <big><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/realitystudio.org\/images\/people\/jan_herman\/publisher\/nova-broadcast\/nova-broadcast.06.jpg\">Norman O. Mustill&#8217;s <em>Twinpak<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/big>, one of a series of <big><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/realitystudio.org\/bibliographic-bunker\/jan-herman-and-william-s-burroughs\/jan-herman-as-publisher-of-nova-broadcast-press\/\">Nova Broadcast <\/strong><\/big><\/a> pamphlets published in San Francisco <strong>in <big>1969<\/big><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>This image is <big><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/barbaradewilde.com\/#939100\/about-bio\">Barbara deWilde<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2011\/02\/20\/books\/review\/20cover\/20cover-sfSpan.jpg\">illustration<\/a><\/strong><\/big> for the <big><strong>cover<\/big><\/strong> of <big><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/books\/review\/index.html\">The New York Times Book Review<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/big> of Feb. 20, <big><strong>2011<\/big><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just images with legs we&#8217;re talking about. I guess you can make the case that any artist may use silhouettes, even one in a curiously similar pose. But combining it with a background of dictionary definitions? So we&#8217;re talking about an <em>idea<\/em> with legs. Rights? What rights? Not included &#8230; let alone the courtesy of an acknowledgment.<br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> An ol&#8217; amigo writes: <em>&#8220;i wish folks like babs would, when they lift sumpin&#8217;, ADD at least some iota of originality to the finished werk. ja?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again, this time vs. the NYT Book Review. You decide. &#169; 1969 by Norman O. Mustill These images are from Norman O. Mustill&#8217;s Twinpak, one of a series of Nova Broadcast pamphlets published in San Francisco in 1969. This image is Barbara deWilde&#8216;s illustration for the cover of The New York Times [&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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-tF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}