Re: FLUXLIST: Merda d'artista

2000-06-23 Thread Roger Stevens
Actually Merda d'artista always reminds me of the english expression "piss artist" which far from meaning an artist who works with urine refers to someone who thinks everything they do is far more important than it actually is. a piss artist is also someone who isn't very good at doing what he

Re: FLUXLIST: Merda d'artista

2000-06-23 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
there is also its distant cousin so to speak: piss poor (aka dirt broke) On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, ann klefstad wrote: Actually Merda d'artista always reminds me of the english expression "piss artist" which far from meaning an artist who works with urine refers to

Re: FLUXLIST: Merda d'artista

2000-06-23 Thread narvis ...pez
At 03:09 pm +0100 23/6/00, Sol Nte wrote: Maybe people have this expression in other countries also? in spanish we said: "yo con 'me-arte' tengo" ...pez ps: piss = mear mi-arte = my-art = me-art mi = me ma-me-mi-mo-mu ps 2: sorry, duchamp again but i wonder if the

RE: FLUXLIST: Merda d'artista

2000-06-23 Thread Villani, Adam
ps 2: sorry, duchamp again but i wonder if the first piece-piss-art in history is his "fountain" (new york, 1917) I seem to remember that there's some brand of beer from Belgium with a picture of a little boy peeing on its label. Apparently this is a famous fountain in the town where the beer

Re: FLUXLIST: Merda d'artista

2000-06-23 Thread ann klefstad
"narvis ...pez" wrote: ps 2: sorry, duchamp again but i wonder if the first piece-piss-art in history is his "fountain" (new york, 1917) Rembrandt did some charming tiny drawings of pissing women--just because they're depictions shouldn't obviate their subversiveness. Thinking of