Tenth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

Gerhard Richter and Luc Tuymans resort to the appropriation of images from different sources as the basis for their paintings, promoting a discussion of the concept of figuration and representation. However, some artists, such as Sandra Gamarra, Martinho Costa, Richard Prince, focus their practice on processes of appropriation not only of images, but of images of other artists’ works. In this situation, it is not a process of reflection on the concept of representation, but on the concept of authorship, where nothing that seems to be in reality. So how do we proceed to understand these new images as an image-another, with its condition of legitimacy and authenticity? This communication intends to analyze how the appropriation processes become images-others when compared with their referents. In this way, the images and their authors, or usurpers, become a new concept, legitimating in action and artistic content, something that, at first, would be derogatory.