Mr. Crimp's show was one of the first signs of a generation of young artists who were soon called Pictures or appropriation artists and finally postmodern artists.

Most appropriation artists did.

Mr. Loeb is what might be called an appropriation artist, and he has been sued for copyright infringement by artists who say he has appropriated their work.

This new art has often developed out of, or alongside, the work of early 1980's appropriation artists, who cannibalized photographic images from mass culture in order to comment on its effects.

Then there is the work of a generation of 1980s postmodern appropriation artists, among them the collage photographs of Richard Prince.

Sherrie Levine (born April 17, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania) is an American photographer and appropriation artist.

Either way, they show this once promising appropriation artist, known for elliptical plays on words and images, in transition (Smith).

Like the appropriation artists of the early 1980's, who rephotographed existing photographs as a way of commenting on society, Mr. Routson makes movies of other people's movies.

Hanson's straightforward evocation of American stereotypes may sometimes find echoes in the work of 80's appropriation artists like Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman.

Since the late 1970's, photocopying has been steadily used by appropriation artists, writer-artists, painters, photographers and fashion photographers.