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Shepard Fairey > master of plagiarism ?

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm

A critique by artist Mark Vallen

Most well known for his "Obey Giant" street posters, Shepard Fairey has carefully nurtured a reputation as a heroic guerilla street artist waging a one man campaign against the corporate powers-that-be. Infantile posturing aside, Fairey's art is problematic for another, more troubling reason - that of plagiarism.

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