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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2314359, member: 4781&quot;]Whenever one of these types of threads pops up, I think of it as an extended form of <i>performance art </i>(&quot;PA&quot;). PA can take many forms, such as Boggs who hand-drew examples of US currency and then the &quot;performance&quot; part was attempting to get a person to accept his &quot;work of art&quot; at face value. Today, such &quot;Boggs Bills&quot; typically sell for amounts far greater than the face values. &quot;Art&quot; often involves bending or breaking the rules. Another PA example of a different sort was Marcel Duchamp&#039;s &quot;Fountain&quot; (from Wikipedia):</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b><i>Fountain</i></b> is a 1917 work produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp" rel="nofollow">Marcel Duchamp</a>. The piece was a porcelain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinal_(restroom)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinal_(restroom)" rel="nofollow">urinal</a>, which was signed &quot;R.Mutt&quot; and titled <i>Fountain</i>. Submitted for the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, in 1917, the first annual exhibition by the Society to be staged at The Grand Central Palace in New York, <i>Fountain</i> was rejected by the committee, even though the rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee. <i>Fountain</i> was displayed and photographed at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz" rel="nofollow">Alfred Stieglitz</a>&#039;s studio, and the photo published in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Man" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Man" rel="nofollow">The Blind Man</a></i>, but the original has been lost. The work is regarded by art historians and theorists of the avant-garde, such as Peter Bürger, as a major landmark in 20th-century art.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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