Bad Manners is an original history of non-consensual collaboration between artists, from the first decades of the 20th century to the present day. Subjects range from cannibalistic acts of modification or alteration of another's work, to the hijacking of authorship through the addition of a signature, to occasions when the identities of artists or their creations are confused.
Whether examining a drawing by Pablo Picasso signed as Henri Matisse, or a coffee table executed by Martin Kippenberger using a painting by Gerhard Richter as its surface, Bad Manners raises questions around the nature of artistic authorship, standards of collegial etiquette, plagiarism and ownership. With text by artist Jake Chapman and curator Yuval Etgar, the publication accompanies an exhibition of the same name at Luxembourg + Co., London.
