Understanding appropriation as a creative practice
Classical pianist Glenn Gould , the greatest Canadian (;-), was famous for his scorn of live performance and his embrace of recording technology. In one example of his use of the studio he spliced together material from two different takes to create one of the fugues in his recording of The Well Tempered Clavier. Although Read More …
The late 1700s and early 1800s saw the emergence in Western Culture of what came to be called Romanticism. This movement was marked among other things by a desire to reject the past and encourage a revolutionary spirit in all things. The French and American revolutions can be seen as taking part in this, and Read More …
Before the age of mechanical reproduction – especially photography, sound recording, and video recording – it was difficult or impossible to use exactly someone else’s creation in your art. You could copy their painting or sculpture or tune, but you couldn’t literally lift their creation and drop it into your own. Literature – which did Read More …