An artist, writer, and curator, Goldsmith is possibly best known for
the emphasis on appropriation and plagiarism in his conceptual writing practice.
Strongly influenced by Dada and
its emphasis on appropriation and everyday objects, artists increasingly worked with collage, consumer products, and a healthy dose of irony.
Not exact matches
Coming to the U.Ss at a later stage in the 1980s meant that my work was historicized within a context that placed
emphasis on institutional critique,
on photographic work, and what was termed «
appropriation.»
Placing an
emphasis on his use of «
appropriation» from his own art, the exhibition is the first major show to present Davis's later works alongside the earlier ones that inspired them.
Focusing primarily
on American art with a further
emphasis on New York, Molesworth has written this narrative around key socio - political events, deliberately avoiding common dominant «
appropriation» vs. «neo-expressionist» characterizations.