Sherrie Levine

Like her contemporary Richard Prince, American artist Sherrie Levine produces art that effectively just copies of other people's art. There's her bronze version of Duchamp's iconic Fountain, which was an underwhelming introduction to the Barbican's recent Martian Museum of Modern Art, and lots of photographs of other people's work. Like Walker Evans' photographs that Levine rephotographed out of the catalogue; or Van Gogh paintings, rephotographed from an art book.

As with Prince, Levine raises questions about the nature of ownership, copyright, intellectual property and what it actually means to be original or creative.

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