Thus Spoke the Artist
Marcin Giżycki
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plPolish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (Poland)
Abstract
Four spectacular cases of artistic appropriation of other artists’ artefacts have been discussed in the text: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp from 1917; written from scratch, word for word, Don Quixote by Pierre Menard, the hero of Borges’s story from 1939; photographs of Walker Evans’s photographs by Sherrie Levine in 1981 and displayed as her own (After Walker Evans); and the found footage of William E. Jones Tearoom from 2007, which was made up of an unchanged police record made in a toilet that was a meeting place of homosexuals. The author shows how such acts become contagious and cause an avalanche of subsequent appropriations of already appropriated works.
Keywords:
Marcel Duchamp, Pierre Menard, Walker Evans, William E. Jones, Sherrie LevineReferences
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/2369-7326.32161
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Authors
Marcin Giżyckikwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology Poland
Krytyk i historyk sztuki; autor książek z dziedziny historii filmu i zjawisk kultury artystycznej. Wykładowca w Rhode Island School of Design w USA, profesor w Polsko-Japońskiej Akademii Technik Komputerowych w Warszawie. Opublikował m.in. Nie tylko Disney - rzecz o kinie animowanym (2000), Koniec i co dalej? (2001), Słownik kierunków, ruchów i kluczowych pojęć sztuki drugiej połowy XX wieku (2002), Wenders do domu! Europejskie filmy o Ameryce i ich recepcja w Stanach Zjednoczonych (2006).
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