{"id":11312,"date":"2021-04-10T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2021-04-12T19:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:18:28","slug":"critic-declares-warhol-not-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/10\/critic-declares-warhol-not-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"Critic Declares Warhol Not Lame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warhol a Lame Copier? The Judges Who Said So Are Sadly Mistaken.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

An appeals court ruled that Andy Warhol violated a photographer\u2019s copyright by appropriating her image for a silk-screen he did in 1984. Our critic disagrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Blake Gopnik<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andy Warhol\u2019s \u201dPrince,\u201d which became the subject of a court case over copyright issues. Credit…The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A few years back, a bevy of art critics <\/a>declared that Marcel Duchamp\u2019s 1917 sculpture called \u201cFountain\u201d \u2014 a store-bought urinal he had presented, unchanged, as art \u2014 was the most influential work of the 20th century. Andy Warhol\u2019s 1964 Brillo Boxes \u2014 copies of scouring-pad cartons presented as art \u2014 could easily have come a close second. The philosopher Arthur Danto built an illustrious career, and a whole school of thought, around the importance of those boxes to understanding the very nature of artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, three federal appellate judges in Manhattan decided they knew more about art than any old critic or philosopher: Whether they quite meant to or not,\u00a0their ruling<\/a>\u00a0had the effect of declaring that the landmark inventions of Duchamp and Warhol \u2014 the \u201cappropriation\u201d they practiced, to use the term of art \u2014 were not worthy of the legal protection that other creativity is given under copyright law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The New York Times Warhol a Lame Copier? The Judges Who Said So Are Sadly Mistaken. An appeals court ruled that Andy Warhol violated a photographer\u2019s copyright by appropriating her image for a silk-screen he did in 1984. Our critic disagrees. By\u00a0Blake Gopnik A few years back, a bevy of art critics declared that Marcel Duchamp\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}