If Joy Division had chosen an image of Mickey Mouse for the cover of their debut album, Disney’s corporate lawyers would have been on their backs as fast as you could say “globalized economic and commercial interests”.
So what is the difference when Peter Saville’s artwork for Unknown Pleasures is appropriated by the ubiquitous cartoon rodent for a T-shirt design?
This is not a ‘rock homage’ but a blatant rip-off and a sacrilegious one at that.
Wow! – thanks Rachael – real interesting back story to this cover art. Just goes to show that Picasso was right : “Good artists copy, great artists steal”! (I still think Disney have a bloody cheek!)
i’d agree, but – http://adamcap.com/2011/05/history-of-joy-division-unknown-pleasures-album-art/
Wow! – thanks Rachael – real interesting back story to this cover art. Just goes to show that Picasso was right : “Good artists copy, great artists steal”! (I still think Disney have a bloody cheek!)