{"id":13,"date":"2004-12-02T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:08:21","slug":"triumph-of-urinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/triumph-of-urinal.html","title":{"rendered":"The Triumph of the Urinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15290\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15290\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/rmutt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/rmutt.jpg 795w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/rmutt-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/rmutt-400x352.jpg 400w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/rmutt-768x676.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Fountain.&#8221; Marcel Duchamp. 1917.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1917 Marcel Duchamp called a porcelain urinal <em>art <\/em>and entered it in a New York exhibit. He signed his \u201cready made\u201d artwork, R. Mutt (a pun using the German word for poverty, &#8220;armut&#8221;). Eighty seven years later Duchamp is acknowledged as the spiritual father of today\u2019s postmodern conceptualist artists\u2026 with one important distinction. <em>Duchamp loathed the bourgeois art establishment and wanted to destroy it<\/em>, while today\u2019s postmodernists <em>are<\/em> the bourgeois art establishment!<\/p>\n<p>In advance of the Tate Gallery announcing its exalted Turner Prize for contemporary art this coming December 6th, a select poll of 500 high society art snobs was conducted by the Tate and Gordon\u2019s Gin (corporate sponsor of the Turner Prize). Those polled represent the crowned heads of the UK art autocracy\u2026 dealers, critics, curators, and artists.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty four percent concluded that Duchamp\u2019s toilet bowl is the \u201c<strong><em>single most influential work of art of the 20th century<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d One has to wonder just how much free Gin was made available by the corporate sponsor prior to the voting.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps those defective electronic voting machines were acting up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1917 Marcel Duchamp called a porcelain urinal art and entered it in a New York exhibit. He signed his \u201cready made\u201d artwork, R. Mutt (a pun using the German word for poverty, &#8220;armut&#8221;). Eighty seven years later Duchamp is acknowledged as the spiritual father of today\u2019s postmodern conceptualist artists\u2026 with one important distinction. Duchamp loathed the bourgeois art establishment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postmodernism-remodernism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}