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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Illegal Art
I was browsing around randomly and came across this picture. lol... Its from a museum exhibit called Illegal Art. From the name it sounds a history of naughty, dirty and explicit pictures but its not. Copyright holders have threatened and sued many of the artists here for sampling, remixing, and recontextualizing other people's artistic creations without permission. Check it out.About poor bert here:
"Thorneycroft had to withdraw this series of drawing from an exhibit in Canada to avoid getting sued."
"These drawings were scheduled to appear in Foul Play, an exhibition by Thorneycroft and Michael Boss to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. But when Thorneycroft and Boss were in discussions with Gallery 1C03, a lawyer advised the gallery that it would be liable for copyright infringement. (In Canada, copyright law is even more restrictive than it is in the United States. "Fair play," which is the Canadian equivalent of "fair use," doesn't allow for parody.)According to Thorneycroft, the works from Foul Play reflect the hypocritical way that society ignores the violence that is often at the heart of child's play. She and Boss ultimately exhibited Foul Play at Winnipeg's SITE gallery. But for fear of legal problems, Thorneycroft removed these drawings of well-known cartoon characters from the show."
Here's more Illegal artwork. There's also Audio and Video art besides Visual. I found it pretty interesting...
11/10/2005 03:58:00 AM | Permalink 
