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My favourite story on a similar note is how a Marc Jacob's boutique was vandalised a few years ago. The vandal spray painted "ART" across the front of the store. Marc Jacobs responded by photographing it and putting it on a teeshirt and selling it for $700.
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In Hans Richter's Dada: Art and Anti-Art, he noted the unexpected commercial success of Dadaist art. The best that I can remember the quote, he said: They expected people to react with shock, and to open their minds. Instead, people reacted with amusement, and opened their wallets.
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FWIW, literal crap has been "artified" and commercialized more than half a century ago[0]
> A tin [of shit] was sold for €124,000 at Sotheby's on May 23, 2007
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There's a term for this: recuperation[1]. The opposite of which is détournement[2].
Banksy's art seems to me to be a good example of the dialectic between the two.
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Actually, an interesting bit of information on the topic of selling Banksy's art. The HBO documentary I mentioned concludes with a statement that while several of NY Residency pieces are up for sale none have sold to date. I don;t know if they have between then and now however.
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I like what Max Tempkin said in regards to selling people literal crap for $6 a piece: "... [T]here's no protesting capitalism. There's nothing you can say about capitalism that it won't subsume and sell back to you." [1]
[1] http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/105481561063/