Kenneth Goldsmith, Duchamp is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics and Poetics of UbuWeb
Disciplines
Review
French
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Virgil Abloh’s epidemic “I often tell people that Duchamp is my lawyer. He’s the legal premise to validate what I’m doing” sets the tone. The author disagrees with the instructions for use and the broad lines on which this clear gesture is based, namely the development of UbuWeb. He gave an account of the adventures and misconceptions he had with distributors, artists or galleries during the titanic archive work he undertook when setting up the site in 1996. The issue of copyright, copi...