Appropriation is the act of taking something, usually without permission, like stealing your brother's french fries when he is momentarily distracted.
The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
Noun
a deliberate act of acquisition
Noun
incorporation by joining or uniting
Noun
money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
n.
The act of setting apart or assigning to a
particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of
all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of
ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
n.
Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
n.
The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the
perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
n.
The application of payment of money by a debtor to
his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to
the latter.
Appropriation
The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation.3.
The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
Usage Examples
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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