Levine built a world where authorship is echo.
By rephotographing canonical works, she exposed originality as myth and repetition as critique.
Her practice turns appropriation into mirror — reflection as moral inquiry.
In her world, silence speaks: image becomes thought, and copying becomes revelation.
Appropriation is traditionally regarded as copying; in Sherrie Levine’s work, it functions structurally to flatten authorship by repeating existing images without alteration.
Originality dissolves, reference dominates, and structure questions origin.
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