Kitsch maestro Jeff Koons was sued by a photographer who'd taken a snapshot of a couple holding a litter of German shepherd puppies. Koons turned the picture, which he'd found on a postcard, into a purposefully tacky sculpture and sold three of them for a total of $367,000. Koons claimed in court that his work was a good-natured parody of banal note-card pictures. A panel of appeals court judges saw something else: a copy done in bad faith, primarily to make money. Koons settled in 1992 for an undisclosed sum. To the art establishment, the plaintiff was an opportunist who didn't get it—the "it" here being the notion that everything on the planet is potential raw material for art.