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It’s only ‘appropriate’ to mark the birthday of this Japanese artist

June 11, On This Day Copycat? Nah, it’s recontextualizing art work into new forms! What is appropriation art? It’s the art of using pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. Inherent to this is the understanding that the new work re-contextualizes whatever it borrows to create new work. In most...