Unlicensed bootlegging as creative practice Bootlegging as creative practice Schwartz, Ben creator author, editor, interviewer. text History Interviews ne 2023 monographic eng print 432 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm Explores many layers of high and low culture and how bootlegging is employed as a creative force. Contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic. Over the last few decades the term 'bootlegging'-a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers-has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing ideologies, to acts of high fashion détournement. UNLICENSED contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging. The conversations in UNLICENSED investigate bootlegging's creative and critical potential, and explore new ways bootlegging can be deployed in order to thrive as an impactful cultural force. -- from Publisher's Website 2024-05-03 Introduction: Under the Cover of Darkness -- An Incomplete History of Bootlegs -- UNLICENSED interviews. Experimental Jetset -- Elisa van Joolen -- Printed Matter -- Shanzhai Lyric -- Babak Radboy -- Matt Olson -- A March Issue -- Boot Boyz Biz -- Jonathan Monk -- Clara Balaguer & Czar Kristoff -- BLESS -- Hassan Kurbanbaev -- SHIRT -- Akinola Davies Jr. -- Urs Lehni & Olivier Lebrun -- Oana Stǎnescu -- Eric Doeringer -- Online Ceramics -- Mark Owens -- Nat Pyper -- Hassan Rahim. Ben Schwartz. Includes index. Appropriation (Art) History 21st century Artists Interviews Appropriation (Art) Histoire 21e siècle Artistes Entretiens Appropriation (Art) Artists 2000-2099 fast N6498.A67 S39 2023 9789493246294 9493246299 pda,print YDX 231202 20250318214211.3 in00005466276 eng