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Mandala appropriation

use of the animals defies the traditional mandala circular prints

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During the early 1980s, Prince began re-photographing magazine ads featuring the Marlboro Man; this resulted in a series of Cowboy works, of which Untitled (Cowboys)is one. In appropriating these images, Prince draws attention to the way in which the identity and history of this American icon and the American West have been meticulously constructed for the buy-in of the American consumer.

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To appropriate is to borrow. Appropriation is the practice of creating a new work by taking a pre-existing image from another context—art history, advertising, the media—and combining that appropriated image with new ones