Research and choose an art work which may be appropriated. Consider those requirements discussed in class as to what may be suitable.
Research and identify ‘icons’ of your contemporary culture, which can be incorporated with your chosen image, therefore changing its original composition, context and meaning. Consider:
magazines / newspapers
digital photography (blue screen)
photocopies
personal drawings etc. from ‘icons’
To create your new composition, context and meaning, consider using various techniques, such as:
computer manipulations, e.g. scanning, using Photoshop, drawing,
photocopying multiple sections
keyhole sections
collage
drawing into
adding text
Artist Book:
Plan and create an artist book to contain your composition, its variations, and all other manipulations. Your artist book must contain all of, or an element of, your contemporary ‘icon’: an appropriation of it.
HINTS:
Could you construct your artist book from a contemporary ‘icon’? for example:
a book
soft drink bottle/can
tennis ball
sports equipment
an old camera, instrument
buttons
nails
hair ribbons
a shoe
OR, place parts of the ‘icon’ into the book, for example the label of soft drink bottles?
Remember, any other materials, e.g. paper, objects added to your artist book are only limited by your imagination. Such additions will demonstrate your personal aesthetic.
Sculptural Display:
Finally, you must decide how your artist book will be displayed.
Consider its sculptural qualities
Could it be displayed in more than one manner?
How do you want your viewers to ‘read’ it?
Appropriation: Part II
