On 12 Dec 2004 10:25:35 GMT, (Radioman390) wrote:

Yes, this is OT.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2307781.htm

Note that the photo shows a view from above, or else the Orientals pee
differently than the rest of us.

Well, this was undoubtedly Marcel Duchamps' dada-ist "found piece"
after WWI.

If you had seen most of your friends dead (and they were in some cases
the lucky ones) in one of those World War I battles in which hundreds
of thousands of people died and the lines moved 5 feet you'd be of
that mindset as well.

Surely the urinal as art was less absurd than the slaughter on the
battlefield.

A few months ago, I went into the downtown Manhattan branch of the
Strand book store (mostly remainders and used books) and on one of the
dollar/book shelves I bought an art auction catalog. There were a
number of color prints by fairly well known artists but the one which
moved me the most was a black and white sketch by the German
Expressionist, George Grosz, in which a general in a spiked hat is
saying "God is With Us", dated 1920.