The Undercurrent of New Meaning in Art Affiliation

The cases that have come up involve very successful appropriation artists. Patrick Carriou, who spends a decade or more in Jamaica studying Rastafari and publishes a book that barely makes any money. Richard Prince comes along and puts purple lozenges on the eyes of a photograph and sells them for a ton of money. And so there is always this undercurrent, a little bit of both class and alittle bit of sort of notion of unfairness.