Birdcalls (1972/2008) is an audio artwork that transforms the names of famous male artists into a bird song, parroting names such as Artschwager, Beuys, Ruscha and Warhol, a mockery of conditions of privilege and recognition given to male artists at that time.
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma | Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | Louise | Louise Slaughter | Tina Louise | Louise Simonson | Louise Nevelson | Louise Brooks | Louise Bourgeois | Princess Louise | Louise Redknapp | Mary-Louise Parker | Lake Louise | Mary Louise Wilson | Louise of Savoy | Louise Homer | Marie Louise | Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon | Louise Lawler | Louise Fletcher | Louise Erdrich | Clara Louise Kellogg | Thelma & Louise | Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein | Louise Rennison | Louise (opera) | Louise of Sweden | Louise Glück | Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth | Louise Chamis |
Other appropriation artists such as Louise Lawler, Vikky Alexander, Barbara Kruger and Mike Bidlo all came into prominence in New York’s East Village in the 1980s.