Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i guess this gives a new meaning to the american vulgarism: "to be shitcanned" - -rei > From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> > > I believe there was a court case in one instance in which the owner of the > can sued the museum to which it was on loan for causing the shit-explosion > by having displayed it in inappropriate conditions. > > However, Manzoni was definitely a dude. He also sold his breath (Artist's > Breath, I suppose) in balloons and signed naked people (no doubt for a fee) > as "living sculptures". I wish I had 1% of his marketing skills. > > R. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "geebeespaw" <geebeespaw@btopenworld.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 10:46 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Art and stuff > > > > From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> > > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > Sent: 09 August 2002 09:37 > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Art and stuff > > > > > > > And there was Piero Mazoni, Italian artist who sold cans of his own > shit - > > > labelled "Artist's Shit: Contents: 30 gr net, freshly produced and > tinned > > in > > > May 1961" - apparently some of them have been exploding forty years > later > > > due to internal pressure. Not a pleasant suprise for the collector... > > > R. > > > - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html