Art is Easy. The Readymade Boomerang.

Gutes Exemplar mit Schutzumschlag, dessen R�cken lichtbedingt ausgeblichen. .; Einband minimal berieben; - Englisch. // INHALT : Ren�lock Art is beautiful. but it makes a lot of work -- Certain Relations in Twentieth Century Art -- ESSAYS Lynne Cooke Reviewing Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Rrose S�vy, Marchand Du Sel -- Bernice Murphy Marcel Who? -- Anne Marie Freybourg Taken in a moment of optical confusion -- Dick Higgins Music from Outside -- Music Program -- Emmett Williams Rich food is bad for your heart -- Satellite exhibitions, Broken Music. // Q: HOW DO YOU MAKE AN EXHIBITION? RB: With imagination. Albert Einstein once said "imagination is more important than knowledge". I agree. Nothing is more of an adventure for me than learning about an idea through the process of realising it. Looking at the exhibition The Ready-made Boomerang reveals a theme which revolves around certain relations in the art of this century. These relations appear not in alphabetical order, but rather as a broad development over 75 years. For this to be made clear, in the exhibition catalogue the artists appear in chronological, rather than alphabetical order. If I trace the concept for an exhibition which deals with the idea of a boomerang - the assertion that certain artistic innovations and concepts are forever in an elliptical motion - this idea has to be clear by leafing through the catalogue and by walking through the exhibition itself. So, when you enter the first room you will encounter a constellation of objects which makes my intention clear: Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, the readymade urinal of 1917; next to it, the response of the late Joseph Beuys, a porcelain W.C. which he marked with two brown crosses in Berlin in 1979, and which was in use until I displaced it (and its function) temporarily to include it as an exhibit in this introductory installation. These two objects provide the subject for Robert Gober's Untitled (1985) - a plaster construction resembling a sink - which in turn refers to the Claes Oldenburg object from the sixties. Above these things, you will find Piero Manzoni's small tin can, which he filled in 1961 with his own 'artist's shit'. Four works, four positions, each one as radical and precise as the next. Also in this room are two sculptures by Jeff Koons Woman in the Tub (1988) and New Hoover Convertible (1980), and an oversized badge by Richard Hamilton which reads Slip It To Me {Epiphany); � (Vorwort) // Illustrationen: Allan Kaprow; Piero Manzoni; Joseph Beuys; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Robert Watts; Robert Filliou; Arthur K�pcke; Francis Picabia; Sigmar Polke; On Kawara; Tatsuo Miyajima; Marcel Broodthaers; Nam June Paik; Peter Cripps, Christian Boltanski; Rebecca Horn; Ouhi Cha; Richard Wentworth; John Nixon // u.a.m. ISBN 0959661964