Should we care about this chair?

[Beebo]

A full set recently sold for over £2million!!! Including chair, table and hatstand. So there is no accounting for maoney and taste. You could knock that up with a few mannequines for less than £100.
(it's a white lady this time)
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/...table-and-chair-hatstand-5652400-details.aspx

 

[Dave 123]

If you removed the upholstery and seat it would make a cracking bike stand.

 

[tyred]

A chair only has to pass one simple test for me. Is it comfortable? If not, it can go on the bonfire for all I care.

 

[MontyVeda]

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Some people are suggesting it's racist and / or sexist.
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It's art and there for shouldn't be taken too seriously... but on a more serious note, it's conceptual art.

if you believe it to be racist, discuss.
if you believe it to be sexist, discuss.

This type of art is designed to provoke, to make one question the artist's motives, whilst also making us question the world in general. Why replace a set of chair or table legs with a human female? It's not like we've been using the human female for numerous other mundane tasks that are perceived as being 'beneath' the males in a male dominated world.

As a piece of furniture, it's crap... as a piece of conceptual art, it certainly says something.

 

[Aperitif]

I can't wait for it to be available with 4 years interest-free credit at DHS.

Typical high-street melange from the chattering classes... Let's have a bit of Benjamin Robert Haydon and restore some decorum to the art section of CycleChat!

 

[Over The Hill]

Really silly argument.
What if I (as a white person) happen to be served by a black waiter? If there is no racial context to the piece then it is not.
But if it makes reference to issues of race then it can be

 

[ColinJ]

It reminded me of the furniture in the Korova Milk Bar scenes in A Clockwork Orange so I imagined that Jones was responsible for that - apparently not!

 

[Aperitif]

It's art and there for shouldn't be taken too seriously... but on a more serious note, it's conceptual art. As a piece of furniture, it's crap... as a piece of conceptual art, it certainly says something.

This took a lot of thinking about, and still makes me wonder!

 

[Bollo]

 

[MontyVeda]

This took a lot of thinking about, and still makes me wonder!

I wouldn't call it conceptual though... the only question those chairs raise is "what kind of adhesive did they use?"

 

[Aperitif]

I wouldn't call it conceptual though... the only question those chairs raise is "what kind of adhesive did they use?"

Wood glue I reckon, Monty.

 

[Globalti]

Colin J may be referring to the crouching girl tables but I don't dare click his link at work. That's a white girl and it's been around since the sixties.

 

[Fnaar]

I'd prefer a Lambretta chair myself, actually..

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[tyred]

The best chairs are made out of Reynolds tubing. I wouldn't sit on anything less.

 

[ColinJ]

Colin J may be referring to the crouching girl tables but I don't dare click his link at work. That's a white girl and it's been around since the sixties.

I thought I had better not post links to scenes from the film! It is actually a link to an article in the Telegraph where the artist explained how he had turned down Kubrik's invitation to provide the furniture because Kubrik was not willing to pay him for it!