UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz 'As a student at Central

'As a student at Central Saint Martins in the early aughts

revealing how his years in Paris transformed his understanding of American identity

CONTRIBUTORSCarla Montemayor

The Joyce painting took 3 years

226pp wraps in a printed dust jacket

UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz 'As a student at CentralOver the last few decades the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground