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Art 103: Art Appreciation Fall 2019 Extra Credit Due Friday Dec 13 (via email to dghrvy@gmail.com) 2 pages double-spaced There ar...
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Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917 The most famous of Duchamp's Dadaist " readymade " sculptures, a store-bought mass-prod... -
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I just find this hysterically ridiculous that first an artist would find something as mundane as a toilet and transform that into a symbol of socio-economic hierarchy. My question is how would the thieves plan on selling this to a black market? Perhaps they planned on melting it down into bars? I'm really not sure the purpose of stealing this toilet..maybe it would have been a better and less sensationalized option if the accused robbers robbed a bank instead. This whole situation seems like a fever dream an artist makes a gold toilet, said toilet gets stolen, and this is acceptable news. Someone out there earned a bachelors in journalism and is now writing articles on stolen toilets-the irony.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that someone built a fully functioning toilet out of solid gold is absolutely insane. The material value of this toilet alone is vastly expensive than buying several toilets and building a tower. What is even more shocking is that someone actually stole the toilet and got away. I have no idea how someone would steal a regular porcelain toilet from home depot and not get caught. None the less one thats made of solid gold in an art museum that weighs thrice as much.
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