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Artisans who turn ideas into art: Who pickled Damien Hirst’s shark and painted Ai Weiwei’s seeds?
A few years ago, conservative readers and commentators were shocked to learn that many students cut and pasted extracts from the internet when composing essays. Those same members of the general public would presumably also have been shocked that Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the 17th-century Italian sculptor, had “cut and pasted” the labour of studio assistants to carve his Apollo and Daphne (1622-5 …
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