Bull, Malcolm

Why Is There the Amount of Art That There Is? - New Left Review 2025 - 89-111

One achievement of the avant-garde has been to show that anything can be art. There are numerous memorable examples spanning the century from Duchamp's Fountain (1917) to Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian (2019), a banana duct-taped to a wall, sold at Sotheby'


Artworld
Cattelan's Comedian
Conceptual Atmosphere
Duchamp's Fountain