In The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms, Simon Wilson and Jessica Lack define appropriation in an art context as “the taking over, into a work of art, of a real object or even an existing work of art.” The Museum of Modern Art further outlines appropriation in art as “the intentional borrowing, copying, and alteration of preexisting images and objects.”
The global feminist movement began in the late nineteenth century and has continued to the present with the goal of obtaining equal rights for women in social, economic, and political sectors. In contemporary, international mainstream rhetoric, the term “feminism” may conjure negative connotations due to a misconception that the goal of the movement is to disadvantage or berate masculinity.
The American commercial artist Ralph Chaplin (1887-1961) was one of the first to have produced stickers (then called “stickerettes” or “silent agitators”) during the early 1910s for the Industrial Workers of the World, according to Mark van Wienen in Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War. By the spring of 1917, a million stickerettes had been prin