There are probably still a few Emily Dickinsons and Henry Dargers holed up with their secret creations out there in the world, but more and more artists are working in a public realm these days. This is definitely true when artists make something and post it on the Internet, and doubly true when that creation samples sounds and images. Appropriation has become a familiar creative impulse, rather than a new idiom as it was for Pablo Picasso in Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc (1914).

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If you want to get a sense of television’s monolithic past, watch an episode of the 1950s American family show Leave it to Beaver. Gleaming white, pristine—it looks like it was carved out of marble—the show exemplified an ideal of a suburban middle-class family. Just about as opposite to The Real Housewives of New Jersey as you can get.

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