ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cultural Appropriation, Conceptual Art, Catholic Guilt
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Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of the elements of one culture by members of another culture. The fear is that the original meaning of these cultural elements is lost or distorted, and such displays are often viewed as disrespectful by members of the originating culture, or even as a form of desecration. Derives from marcel duchamp"s notion of anti=visual ( retinal art ) in favor of the idea of the object itself (his version was called the readymade) Duration (time) can be an element in art. The lasting form of an artwork is created and later re-created in the viewer"s mind. Elements other than the visual (ie, sound, touch) may be part of the form of an artwork. The artists is free to appropriate, or borrow tools, images, objects. The artists might use his/her body and/or identity as a means of executing (making) the work itself.
