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What is an appropriationist?

What is an appropriationist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (art) An artist who adopts or reworks images made famous by other artists
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In the hands of a garden-variety appropriationist, the hats would represent a satiric comment on the commodification of individualism.
Like many of his Russian contemporaries, he was an appropriationist.
How does this new body of work involving coloring books from the 1970s sit within the larger trajectory of your appropriationist gestures?
What we now have is committed, realist, appropriationist art, from sources such as television and so on, yet try as it might to deny it, it mysteriously remains art.
We think it is a miracle anyone is still talking about these finer points of appropriationist art anymore and we bet not even the artist is trying to frame them that way.
Happily, he uses it for speed, letting us off the hook much quicker than many another film appropriationist now skulking in galleries worldwide.

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