"A good year for remodernism - for having the gall to suggest that artists can have souls."
- Alex Kapranos of the rock band, Franz Ferdinand. Remodernism - for the renewal of spirituality and meaning in art, culture and society. www.la-stuckism.com

The one bit in there reminded me, and compelled me to post in a comment, that Brian Eno claims, not exactly to have pissed, but at least to have placed some of his piss in R. Mutt's Fountain, which, if true, is my favorite thing he's ever done.

Because you disapprove of Duchamp that much or because you think so highly of Eno's urine?

Setting aside my feelings about Eno's urine, you don't really think I'd approve of his action that much, or at all, out of a disapproval of Duchamp, do you?

Do you?

Because I don't disapprove of him, or anyway, I don't disapprove of that urinal, at all.

Setting aside my feelings about Eno's urine

You're avoiding the central question here.

The gift of elimination can be an ambiguous one, but some people at least treat it as a mild expression of hostility. But I would guess that you have mixed feelings about Duchamp.

Ok, I'll come right out and say it: I don't care one bit about Eno's urine, and if it were anyone else's urine, I would esteem the person whose urine it was.

It's not Duchamp I have mixed feelings about (or anyway, any mixed feelings I have about Duchamp aren't salient here), it's the display of Fountain, especially as it was in the relevant part of the story (behind plexiglass or some such partitions, such that Eno had to show great ingenuity in snaking some rubber tubing into the urinal through a narrow aperture).

That is great. Duchamp preferred it installed over the door frame. He would hang things like mistletoe from it.