Copy Cats and Contemporary Art: Roy Lichtenstein – Plagarist or Modern Master?

Copy Cats and Contemporary Art: Roy Lichtenstein – Plagarist or Modern Master?
Debates about “copying” continue to rage in contemporary art. Check out the BBC article and related slide show entitled ” Is Lichtenstein a Great Modern Artist or a Copy Cat” (Links to an external site.) （ http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130717-pop-artist-or-copy-cat）written about the Lichtenstein exhibition in 2013. Consider this in relationship to the brief video clips (Links to an external site.) （ http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-21525088）of the Lichtenstein exhibition held in London in 1968.
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Roy Lichtenstein’s critics said he was a plagiarist, not an artist. But Alastair Sooke argues that he should be reassessed as a modern master.

Some potential topics for discussion: How have reactions changed? What other aspects of this media coverage do you find interesting? Do you think of Lichtenstein as a “copy cat,” “modern master,” or something else? Why?
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Politics and Protest at UO in the late 1960s
This week in class we’ll explore more of the art and politics of protests (especially student protests) in the 1960s. Did you know similar activities happened at UO? Read more here（ https://blogs.uoregon.edu/scua/2015/01/21/student-protests-on-the-uo-campus-demonstrations-of-the-late- 1960s/）. Did anything in this article surprise or provoke you? How do you think the UO undergraduate experience has changed in the past 50 years? In your mind, what should be the role of politics in art and/or in campus life in 2016?
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Student Protests on the UO Campus: Demonstrations of the …
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I was a student and SDS organizer, indicted for the 1970 riots with 12 other students. Inclusion of real and existing student SDS participants in this

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UBU WEB is a large web-based archive for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives. It remains non-commercial and operates on a gift economy. UbuWeb ensures educational open access to out-of-print works that find a second life through digital art reprint while also representing the work of contemporaries.

Explore UBU WEB (Links to an external site.) （ http://www.ubuweb.com/）in great detail. What are the pros and cons of this site and this archival model? What is a “gift economy”? What content can you find specifically related to our class? Insert links to your favorite selection(s) and let us know why you chose it.

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David Hammons (b. 1943), installation artist, performance artist, and sculptor, is our Marcel Duchamp. UbuWeb is pleased to present a selection of his videos …