DANTO, ARTHUR

Danto: what makes Warhol's Brillo Box art and the supermarket version not is a theory — the artworld — that surrounds the first. CoCA operates as the Artworld with a tax classification. The theory is the wall text; the wall text is the gallery; the gallery is the Church. Strip any layer and the object is plumbing again. Volume I §1.3.4 (Fountain as Ur-Sacrament) is the Danto thesis in liturgical drag.