Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation

Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation, an exhibition of roughly 100 drawings and a selection of prints from the Museum’s collection that explores the long and inventive tradition of appropriation in art, linking initial modern strategies to subsequent methods of copying, quotation, and replication. When Pablo Picasso pasted pieces of newspaper onto his work Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum in 1914, he brought the outside world into his work, initiating a dialogue with popular culture that has continued for generations. Using this classic collage as a starting point, the installation focuses on early modernist roots of appropriation, the Pop Art movement in the mid-1950s and 1960s, and strategies that have emerged from the 1980s to today. Many works are on view for the first time at the Museum. Artists in the exhibition include John Baldessari, Marcel Duchamp, Sandra Gamarra, Richard Hamilton, Hannah Höch, Marine Hugonnier, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, and Kurt Schwitters. On view July 30 through November 10, 2008, the exhibition is organized by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art.

Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation
Kurator: Connie Butler

mit John Baldessari, Marcel Duchamp, Sandra Gamarra, Richard Hamilton, Hannah Höch, Marine Hugonnier, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Kurt Schwitters ...