Louis Vuitton suit adds fraud allegation - latimes.com
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If you don't know anything about art, why buy it?
This, as a piece, works primarily on an intellectual level; it's about pop, consumerism; it's about the Western consumer willing to lay down some serious money for something that would otherwise be valueless without an author of some kind--an artist, that, is--granting some sort of intentionality to these materials.
So, the guy buys a piece of art and feels DEFRAUDED because it carried out its aim, working with these sets of intellectual principles that center around industry and commerce that were laid down, at least within this contemporary context, by the freaking Impressionists 150 years ago.
If you buy art, and you don't understand what it's supposed to do, you don't understand its history, then why buy it? Investment? Buy stocks instead. And then when you come to realize that the artist, who is already notorious for blurring the line between the manufactured and the crafted, did just that, how is that fraud?
What about Andy Warhol? Marcel Duchamp? Frauds?
So what if Takashi Murakami used Vuitton canvas for the prints? Ever heard of the Duchampian readymade? Cultural appropriation?
If you're going to buy art, especially contemporary art that works primarily on a conceptual level, know what you're getting yourself into. There's no excuse.
This, as a piece, works primarily on an intellectual level; it's about pop, consumerism; it's about the Western consumer willing to lay down some serious money for something that would otherwise be valueless without an author of some kind--an artist, that, is--granting some sort of intentionality to these materials.
So, the guy buys a piece of art and feels DEFRAUDED because it carried out its aim, working with these sets of intellectual principles that center around industry and commerce that were laid down, at least within this contemporary context, by the freaking Impressionists 150 years ago.
If you buy art, and you don't understand what it's supposed to do, you don't understand its history, then why buy it? Investment? Buy stocks instead. And then when you come to realize that the artist, who is already notorious for blurring the line between the manufactured and the crafted, did just that, how is that fraud?
What about Andy Warhol? Marcel Duchamp? Frauds?
So what if Takashi Murakami used Vuitton canvas for the prints? Ever heard of the Duchampian readymade? Cultural appropriation?
If you're going to buy art, especially contemporary art that works primarily on a conceptual level, know what you're getting yourself into. There's no excuse.