Untitled (After Malevich and Schiele), from the 1917 exhibition, Nature Morte Gallery, New York

Sherrie Levine challenges notions of authorship and originality by directly appropriating and recontextualizing iconic works of art and documentary photography. Levine rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists based in New York in the late 1970s and 1980s, whose work examined the structures of signification underlying mass-circulated images—and, in many cases, borrowing these images in order to imbue them with a new, critically inflected meaning.

New York, NY, USA