Dr. Glyn Thompson is an independent scholar, curator and writer living in the Lake District of the U.K. He is a regular contributor to the English art magazine The Jackdaw. An increasing number of his critiques of Duchamp scholarship con-tinue to appear regularly on www.academia.edu.
Since the role played by plumbing in the history of modern art in America has largely escaped the attention of its critics, it would be no surprise it has also failed to fascinate its plumbers, who consequently might be intrigued to learn that the most influential work of art of the twentieth century was a urinal.
