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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Linda McRae*
Affiliation:
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
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Like most librarians, I spend a large part of my time organizing information and helping others to find it, but as an artist, I sometimes find an image more interesting to appropriate than to classify.

The word “appropriation” as applied to art has in some ways supplanted the concept of the found object. Appropriation refers to the use of images (taken from many sources, including art history) that have been not only removed from their original context, but re-combined with other images to form a new context, a new work of art.

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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1992

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