[pdb-discuss] Draft funding proposal

Tue Apr 24 12:09:15 UTC 2007

Quoting Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk>:

> Koons and Warhol were also involved in litigation over their work, which
> strengthens them as examples somewhat. Peter Saville would be another good
> one to mention, but depending on your definition, he may or may not really
> be an 'Artist' as such (he's a graphic designer / commercial illustrator)

Saville tends to quote style rather than appropriate identifiable  
works like Warhol and Koons do. This is not prevented by copyright and  
in fact many mainstream UK artists have based entire careers on the  
look & feel of a single work by Picasso or a Kapitalistischen  
Realismus artist (Paula Rego, Damien Hirst, Fiona Rae, Sarah Morris,  
Gavin Turk, I'd better add an "allegedly" here). Even Julian Opie's  
work is 'inspired' by old graphic design. The only direct  
appropriation of Saville's that I'm aware of is that painting by Henri  
Fantin-Latour on the cover of Power, Corruption & Lies, which was PD  
at the time.

- Rob.