Imitation Games: Mike Bidlo and Piero Manzoni

By Elleree Erdos, from Volume 5, Number 4

The final line of Roland Barthes’ influential 1967 text, “The Death of the Author,” reads: “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.”1 Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author,” in Image-Music-Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978), 148. [↩]