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Article: Clemente's Kalighat "crimes," part II.(Letter to the editor)
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- Art in America
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- January 1, 2007
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To the Editors:
I'm an untrained artist who has long used A.i.A. as a means of self-education. Sometimes I'll even copy paintings in the magazine to see how they're made; but these copies are exercises that I destroy or tuck away for reference. To present them as my own work would be to cheat the original artist and to betray my own reasons for painting. Or so I thought.
Brooks Adams's matter-of-fact reply to Vinod Dave's revelations has me puzzled about questions of influence and origin [see Letters, Sept. '06]. Isn't it stealing when Francesco Clemente makes unattributed direct copies from the works of vernacular Kalighat painters? Yes, he inserts his ...