Memoirs of public figures, written by family members or (former) friends, are often as revealing about the person who wrote the memoir as about the purported subject. Or, to put it differently, such memoirs are really about the relationship between the subject and the writer. Paul Theroux’s Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents... Continue Reading →
Influence, Appropriation, and Plagiarism
Alberto Korda - Guerrillero Heroico (1960, in its original form) Recently, there have been a number of high-profile lawsuits, internationally, that revolved around the practice of appropriation in art – the use and interpretations of existing images by other artists. One involved the 1984 Orange Prince painting by the American Pop artist Andy Warhol which... Continue Reading →