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Άρθρο/Article: Readymade Remade, by Leland De La Durantaye

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The story of the  damage of two copies of Fountain - an art piece by Marcel Duchamp - with a hammer, by  Pierre Pinoncelli, as a statement of his, that the work had lost its provocative value. The most recent attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou in Paris and the first at an exhibition in Nîmes on 25 August 1993 where he also urinated into it before using the hammer…

(Pierre Pinoncelli ,1993
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