SubRant

Episode #78: Good Enough to Steal?

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James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art

SHOW NOTES

  • 00:30 - Hope and bikes on the ceiling
  • 02:30 - Ghosted by a chihuahua
  • 04:15 - It's gonna take years! 
  • 05:00 - Normal American hoarder?
  • 07:00 - No boxes from Temu!
  • 08:40 - James debunks a dog harness 
  • 10:20 - Instagram algorithm whiners 
  • 12:45 - More whining about Lichtenstein 'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein
  • 13:54 - Seeing the "Ben-Day" dots
  • 15:00 - Disposable illustration, pop-art
  • 16:00 - "It's called stealing", said Hy Eisman, but James has a different take! 
  • 18:00 - Appropriation vs plagiarism 
  • 20:29 - Seeing "BLAM"!
  • 21:25 - American Art Industrial Complex squashes comic collage 
  • 23:18 - Isn't art disposable?
  • 26:15 - Chinese website snatched James' image and used it for a logo!
  • 29:21 - "WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein And The Art Of Appropriation" documentary 
  • 31:10 - AI similarities? 
  • 32:21 - Intellectually interesting, but not analogous 
  • 33:27 - Lichtenstein IS pop-art, Warhol isn't
  • 34:16 - Not a transformative soup can, but good enough to steal! 
  • 35:24 - "Come play with us forever"
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    SubRantBy Catherine Lynn & James Fryer
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