appropriation

Appropriation is a lot like plagiarism in the sense that a plagiarist steals or copies another authors work. The plagiarist alters a work just enough to look different and claims credit of the work for themselves. An appropriationist taking someone else's images or art works and slightly altering it to make it seem as their own piece of art is that same. Appropriation in art is the use of pre existing objects and or images with little to no transformation applied to them. These two concepts are very similar because they are both altering another persons work and claiming it as their own.