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What is an appropriation?

What is an appropriation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An act or instance of appropriating.
  2. That which is appropriated.
  3. Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
  4. (art) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
  5. (sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
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In this sense, one of the primary postconceptualist strategy, appropriation, was deployed rapaciously upon Conceptual art itself.
Once again, isn't it worth asking why these types of appropriation bill riders are allowed?
Many of the works on the political side of the spectrum relied on fragmentation, appropriation and postmodern distancing to make their points.
Congress actually passed a bill which made Sunday closing a condition for the appropriation of federal money.
Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
I think there will be money in a supplemental appropriation as early as next week.

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