Tako rzecze artysta
Thus Spoke The Artist

Summary/Abstract: Four spectacular cases of artistic appropriation of other artists’ artefacts have been discussed in the text: “Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp from 1917; written from scratch, word for word, “Don Quixote” by Pierre Menard, the hero of Borges’s story from 1939; photographs of Walker Evans’s photographs by Sherrie Levine in 1981 and displayed as her own (“After Walker Evans”); and the found footage of William E. Jones “Tearoom” from 2007, which was made up of an unchanged police record made in a toilet that was a meeting place of homosexuals. The author shows how such acts become contagious and cause an avalanche of subsequent appropriations of already appropriated works.

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