Simon Starling by Francesco Manacorda, Dieter Roelstraete, Ja... - 9780714864198

Name: Simon Starling by Francesco Manacorda, Dieter Roelstraete, Ja... - 9780714864198
Brand: Phaidon Press Ltd

Phaidon Press Ltd

Simon StarlingAuthor(s): Francesco Manacorda, Dieter Roelstraete, Janet Harbord\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Phaidon Press Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Phaidon Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780714864198, 978-0714864198\nSynopsis\nWhen Marcel Duchamp shipped Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Bird in Spaceto Edward Steichen in 1926, New York customs officials refused to accept that it was a work of art, instead levying the standard import tariff for a manufactured object. A legal battle ensued, with the courts eventually declaring Bird in Spacean artwork and therefore exempt from the tariff. Seventy-eight years later, visitors to Simon Starling's exhibition at New York's Casey Kaplan Gallery were confronted with Staling's own Bird in Space[tel]: a two-ton slab of steel from Romania (Brancusi's country of origin) leaning against the gallery wall and propped up on three inflatable cushions. The United States had recently introduced a new import tax of twenty per cent on foreign metals, which Sta.