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I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The fingerprint is the only sign of the personality that can be accepted: if collectors want something intimate, really personal to the artist, there's the
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on May 23, 2007. In October 2008, tin 83 was offered for sale at Sotheby's with an estimate of £50,000–70,000. It sold for £97,250. On October 16, 2015, tin 54 was sold at Christies for £182,500. In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new record of €275,000, including
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was accused by art collector John Hunov of causing leakage of a can which had been on display at the museum in 1994. Allegedly, the museum had stored the can at irresponsibly high temperatures. The lawsuit ended with the museum paying a 250,000
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auction fees. The tins were originally to be valued according to their equivalent weight in gold – $ 37 each in 1961 – with the price fluctuating according to the market.
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At the time the piece was created, Manzoni was producing works that explored the relationship between art production and human production,
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made a piece called "Artist's Piss" where he canned his own urine and sold it for its weight in silver.
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The piece received media coverage due to a lawsuit in the mid-1990s, when an art museum in
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The Anal Aesthetic: Regressive Narrative Strategies in Modernism
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In December 1961, Manzoni wrote in a letter to his friend
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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
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settlement to the collector, approximately US$ 35,000.
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Artist's shit

Piero Manzoni
tin cans
feces
Ben Vautier
Enrico Baj
Karl Marx
commodity fetishism
Marcel Duchamp
readymades
YBA
Gavin Turk
Sotheby's
Agostino Bonalumi
Bernard Bazile
French
Randers
Denmark
Danish kroner
Shock art
ISBN
8844412470
cite book
link
Dutton, Denis
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
ISBN
9781608191932

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