Beg, Steal & Borrow: Artists Against Originality

by Robert Shore

"Art is theft," Picasso once proclaimed, and much of the best and most "original" new art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft.�

Paradoxically, the law relating to artistic borrowing has grown more restrictive. "The plagiarism and copyright trials of the twenty-first century are what the obscenity trials were to the twentieth century," Kenneth Goldsmith, has observed. "These are really the issues of our time."

Beg,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780679467
• ISBN13: 9781780679464
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Laurence King
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.3"