ABSTRACT
Simon Linke and Jeff Koons were two artists who made the advertising of art their creative concern during the 1980s. Linke, a British neo-conceptual painter exhibiting at the Lisson Gallery in the mid 1980s, seized upon this fact in order to make sardonic, elegant paintings of the adverts appearing in the influential American journal Artforum. Although many fine artists look down upon advertising as an applied art, those who exhibit in private and public galleries are heavily dependent upon it for publicity purposes. David Salle's art represented one possible response to the 'death of painting' crisis and the situation of image-glut/overload associated with a media-saturated environment. In 1988 a number of radical artists organized a 'Festival of Plagiarism' consisting of a series of mixed-media exhibitions and events at off-beat locations in London and San Francisco. Graham Harwood is a British plagiarist who regards himself as a working-class artist working on behalf of the working class.
