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In 1917, Marcel Duchamp trolled the New York art scene with Fountain, the famous urinal, whose significance has since swelled in the minds of art aficionados to become the prototype of all modern art. The conversation as to whether or not Fountain fulfills the conditions of a genuine work of art has been going on ever since. In this episode, JF and Phil weigh in with their own ideas, not just about what art is, but more importantly, about what art -- and only art -- can do. The result is a no-holds-barred assault on the very idea of conceptual art, a j'accuse aimed squarely at Duchamp and anyone else who would make the arts as scrutable, and as trivial, as the latest political attack ad or home insurance jingle.

REFERENCES

J. S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier
\nRoger Scruton, The Face of God
\nPhilip Larkin, All What Jazz
\nDaniel Clowes, Art School Confidential
\nBanksy, Girl with Balloon
\nBill Hicks, stand-up bit on marketers
\nWalter Benjamin, \u201cTheses on the Philosophy of History\u201d and Paul Klee, Angelus Novus
\nArthur Danto, \u201cThe Art World\u201d
\nAndy Warhol, Brillo Boxes
\nJF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
\nCornelius Cardew, \u201cStockhausen Serves Imperialism\u201d
\nJohn Roderick, \u201cPunk Rock is Bullshit\u201d
\nSusan McClary, foreword to William Cheng, Just Vibrations
\nDeleuze, "What is the Creative Act?"
\nBenjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
\nBiggie Smalls, "Ready to Die"
\nCave paintings at Chauvet
\nAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel lecture
\nJonathan Glazer, Under the Skin