Collector's shit
Subtitle: detachment from the collection
By: Todd Alden
Contributors: Donald, Ted; Ted Donald Editions
Publisher: Ted Donald Editions
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Feces in art; Artists' books; Specimens
Notes: In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni collected his own excrement in tins which he sold for the price of gold on the day of the sale. Beginning in 1993, Todd Alden embarked on a project in response to Manzoni, in which he invited some 750 contemporary art collectors to conserve their own feces for canning and collection. A total of 81 collectors participated in this consideration of abjection, market relations, scatological taboos, and authenticity. Alden situates the collector as artist creator, while his own role becomes that of collector fetishist. Bound in a file folder, this publication consists of meticulously organized copies of correspondence with an anonymous collector, support materials, and essays by Alden and Ted Donald. -- printedmatter.org (viewed on 12/6/13).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A few words / Todd Alden; title: From excrement to aesthetics and back / Ted Donald; title: Collector no 172 (Anonymous collector); title: A legend and some numbers.