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52 years later, in 1986, U.S. graphic designer Paula Scher adapted Matter’s tourist poster for an advertisement for Swatch
watches in what has become a classic example of the postmodern “appropriation,” “recycling” or – as critics such as graphic
designer Malcolm Garrett have called it – “ransacking” of images from the past.

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52 years later, in 1986, U.S. graphic designer Paula Scher adapted Matter’s tourist poster for an advertisement for Swatch watches in what has become a classic example of the postmodern “appropriation,” “recycling” or – as critics such as graphic designer Malcolm Garrett have called it – “ransacking” of images from the past.

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