Comments on Copying Art, Part 2

What a prima donna. Michaelangelo's David was situated beneath a waterspout of the Duomo for decades: that's poor placement.

This is a slippery slope. If artists can "disown" a work they then make it valueless. This creates a dilemma for a purchaser: Why pay good money for an object that the artist may disown because he doesn't like the environment in which it is kept. An artist who gets a reputation for disowning is going to devalue his entire body of work.

Slaves do not willingly submit themselves to the marketplace. If Andre didn't want people to have control over his (terrible) art, he had a perfect option: don't sell it.

ahh, minimalism. will you ever stop boring me?

Am I the only one who finds Carl Andre 13 kinds of awesome?

It seems like this whole drama just made the sculpture more famous, and therefore increasing its market value. Which is not saying he shouldn't have made the copy.

what i dont get is what makes the sculpture so great. It's a bunch of copper plates on the ground, right? I could do that. i hate this kind of art that takes no fucking skill. will some art nerd please enlightenme as to why I should like this peice or even find it remotly interesting?

@6: because of the THOUGHT that it embodies. you COULD do it, but you didn't. Carl Andre did it, and backed it up with a blizzard of theory. For even more irritating minimalist art, look up Lawrence Weiner.

@6

You mean enlightenment other than the whole freaking article Jen Graves wrote about it? If you can't be bothered to make the effort to read then there is no chance you will ever find this kind of thing interesting. Which is not a crime; just quite bitching as if you're owed an explanation.

I made a copy of this piece when I was at Home Depot trying to decide whether to go with the cheap lino tiles.

"My son puked a Pollock." There's half a century of this critique of modern art, and the critique never developed into anything other than a quip, and nobody changed how they make art in response to it, so could it be time to give it a rest?

Also, Fnarf, you're confusing property with copyright. They differ.

No, I'm not. I never ended up buying the tiles. I just laid them out in Andre's exact pattern here, and then started shouting "I will not be a slave! I am a Free Man!" until they threw me out.