Academic essay on ShitBegone toilet paper and postmodernism

Mark Frauenfelder 10:21 am Thu Apr 22, 2004

Surprisingly readable academic paper with more information about ShitBegone toilet paper (which I blogged previously).

[Jed] Ela did the reverse of DuChamp: he exhibited a single role of a toilet paper he had thought of as a joke, called 'Shitbegone'. The exhibit was a great success, and Ela realised he could actually make money by mass-producing Shitbegone and selling it in stores. What differentiates this from the sale of other artistic reproductions is that Ela markets Shitbegone as toilet paper, not as art: he sells it by the case ("96 double rolls for $44.99. That's 47 cents per roll!"). What started as something like Warhol's soup cases turns into an idiosyncratic case of the product development and marketing of a basic essential commodity.

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