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''Artist's Shit'' (Italian: ''Merda d'artista'') is a 1961 artwork by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90 tin cans, each filled with of faeces, and measuring , with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating: :Artist's Shit :Contents 30 gr net :Freshly preserved :Produced and tinned :in May 1961 ==Inspiration and interpretations== At the time the piece was created, Manzoni was producing works that explored the relationship between art production and human production, ''Artist's Breath'' ("Fiato d'artista"), a series of balloons filled with his own breath, being an example. Manzoni's father, who owned a cannery, is said to have once told his artist son, "Your work is shit."〔 In December 1961, Manzoni wrote in a letter to his friend Ben Vautier: Another friend, Enrico Baj, has said that the cans were meant as "an act of defiant mockery of the art world, artists, and art criticism." ''Artist's Shit'' has been interpreted in relation to Karl Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, and Marcel Duchamp's readymades.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Artist's Shit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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