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Simulationism

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Simulationism (English: simulationism) is an art movement that spread chiefly in New York during the 1980s. Opposing the uniqueness (aura) of modern art, it is characterized by appropriating (borrowing) images from popular art using cut-up, sampling, remix, and other techniques. It is also called simulation art or appropriation art. Behind this lies the condition of contemporary society in which the distinction between original and copy disappears and copies are consumed in large quantities, as Jean Baudrillard observed in “Simulacra and Simulation.” By appropriating images, simulationism reexamines originality, critically dismantles the authority and power of original works, and directs attention toward new relationships between images and social systems (gender, commercialism, race and identity, institutionalized art). Representative artists include Cindy Sherman, who photographed self-portraits acting out scenes resembling film stills; Sherrie Levine, who copied Walker Evans's photographs and made them her own works; Richard Prince, who copied advertising photographs as his own works; and Jeff Koons, who displayed vacuum cleaners in glass cases as artworks. In Japan, art critic Noi Sawaragi's arguments in his 1991 Simulationism: House Music and Appropriation Art greatly influenced artists and others.

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