In the 1960s, when Roy Lichtenstein began incorporating comic strips into his paintings, he framed the gesture as a form of ironic appropriation. His use of cartoons and comics was meant to ...

Appropriation art raises special issues of fair use. An appropriation artist takes the work of another artist and modifies it in some fashion and in the process creates a new work of art. Andy ...

Every week, we scan the media for interesting conversations about art. This week: thoughts on the changing meaning of “appropriation art” and the unexpected riddle about America’s most-purchased ...

Back in 1984, Vanity Fair asked artist Andy Warhol to make a silk-screen image based on a photograph of the musician Prince, which the magazine had licensed from celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith.