Sean Young, 1981
Tuesday 26 March 2013
The Richard Mutt Case
They say any artist paying
six dollars may exhibit.
Mr. Richard Mutt sent in a
fountain. Without discussion this article disappeared and was never exhibited.
What were the grounds for
refusing Mr. Mutt's fountain:
1. Some contend it was immoral, vulgar.
2. Others, it was plagiarism, a
plain piece of plumbing.
Now Mr. Mutt's fountain is not immoral, that is absurd, no more
than a bath tub is immoral. It is a fixture that you see every day in plumbers'
show windows.
Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has
no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so
that its useful significance disappeared under a new title and point of view –
created a new thought for that object.
As for plumbing, that is absurd. The only works of art America has
given are her plumbing and her bridges.
Anonymous article in The Blind Man no.2 May, 1917
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