Artist's Shit

The work consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams (1.1 oz) of feces, and measuring 4.8 by 6.5 centimetres (1.9 in × 2.6 in), with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating: Artist's Shit Contents 30 gr net Freshly preserved Produced and tinned in May 1961

[2] Artist's Shit has been interpreted in relation to Karl Marx's idea of commodity fetishism and Marcel Duchamp's readymades.

[7] The tins were originally to be valued according to their equivalent weight in gold – $37 each in 1961 – with the price fluctuating according to the market.

[3] One of Manzoni's friends, Agostino Bonalumi, claimed that the tins are full not of faeces but plaster.

The lawsuit ended with the museum paying a 250,000 Danish kroner settlement to the collector, approximately US$35,000.