Simon Starling

by Janet Harbord and Dieter Roelstraete

When Marcel Duchamp shipped Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Bird in Space to 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 Space an artwork and therefore exempt from the tariff. Seventy-eight years later, visitors to Simon Starling's exhibition at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714864196
• ISBN13: 9780714864198
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.9" x 11.3"
• Grade Range: Preschool to Postsecondary