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Steph Taylor
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Ocean modeller / scientific programmer. ❤️: enviro science, physics, plants, weird critters, textile arts.
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A copyright symbol! On a painting!
Text: For one thing, Morriseau almost always signed works with his shaman’s name, Copper Thunderbird, in Cree syllabics on the front —never illegibly on the back, never in English, and certainly never with a copyright symbol. All three if these erroneous features were present in some of the fakes. For another, the provenance of the disputed paintings — their history of ownership — was vague and could not be traced back to Morrisseau. Sometimes the paintings smelled of markers, which the artist never used. Other paintings had misspelled titles on the back. And the images confused the Indigenous spiritual myths that Morrisseau represented visually. Thonpson says, “The paintings don’t make sense.”
March 12, 2024 at 4:47 PM