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Question: Why many post modern artists find appropriation to be a very effective means of expression!?
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It has to do with the how art has been used to marginalize the other!. To appropriate those symbols is to effectively reverse the power relationships imposed by society!.

For example, tattoo art has been habitually seen (by the upper classes and power elite) as the inferior art of the masses!. To elevate it to a museum piece or performance is defy the society that demeans the artistic expressions of the "lower classes"!.

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