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Collector's shit: detachment from the collection

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Author(s):
Alden, Todd
Title:
Collector's shit: detachment from the collection
Date:
1996?
View:
Inside page
Image Description:
Photograph of collector's shit.
Press(es):
Ted Donald Editions
Physical Description:
1 portfolio: ill.; 38 cm.
Subject(s):
Collectors and collecting
Subject(s):
Feces in art
Book Type(s):
Artists' books
Description:
"In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni collected his own excrement in tins which he sold for the price of gold on the day of the sale. Beginning in 1993, Todd Alden embarked on a project in response to Manzoni, in which he invited some 750 contemporary art collectors to conserve their own feces for canning and collection. A total of 81 collectors participated in this consideration of abjection, market relations, scatological taboos, and authenticity. Alden situates the collector as artist creator, while his own role becomes that of collector fetishist. Bound in a file folder, this publication consists of meticulously organized copies of correspondence with an anonymous collector, support materials, and essays by Alden and Ted Donald."--www.printedmatter.org<br>Library's copy signed by the artist.<br>Offset printing.
Table of Contents:
A few words / Todd Alden -- From excrement to aesthetics and back / Ted Donald -- Collector no 172 (anonymous collector).
Binding:
Post binding in portfolio
Process/Technique:
Offset printing
ImageID:
artb43594D
Collection:
Otis Library's Artists' Books
Record created:
Jan. 23, 2020
Last modified:
Jan. 23, 2020


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