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Duchampian News & Reviews
from institutions, scholars and fans
• The fountain drawings
by Mike Bidlo
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Mike Bidlo. The fountain drawings, an installation
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"Mike Bidlo has concentrated his artistic energies on making a large number of drawings, each one different from the other, with Duchamp's masterpiece as their subject, using a multitude of brushes, pencils and media." ... more
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• ELECTRACY
by ainanott
"Marcel Duchamp (Dada artist) altered the classic Mona Lisa originally created by Leonardo Da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. .. From looking at these (Dada) artworks, some similarities have been related in the progression of electronic literacy and digital art. As we live in the midst of a 'Global Communication Revolution', information, communication and technology have become so important that it continues to change and alter aspects of our daily lives." ... more
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• Video: Badiou, "Some Remarks Concerning Marcel Duchamp" at Tilton Gallery
by Farhang Erfani
• Surrealist Enrico Donati Dies at 99
by sanjoe
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Marcel Duchamp and Enrico Donati (from left to right) at Yves Tanguy's house in Woodbury, CT, 1945 credit: toutfait.com
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"Enrico Donati, an Italian-born American painter and sculptor considered by many in the art world to be the last of the Surrealists, died at his home in Manhattan Enrico Donati (b.1909) was an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth...he was clearly drawn to Surrealism. This was reinforced by meeting André Breton and coming into contact with Duchamp and the other European Surrealists in New York at the time." ... more
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• Artwork Censored ...like Duchamp's urinal. Yale erred in banning Shvarts' art
by Seth Kim-Cohen
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A controversial art exhibit will now have to be displayed along with a disclaimer.
(ABC News Photo Illustration)
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"....Unfortunately, the (Yale) University has banned her work from the Senior Project Show, making a first-hand encounter with Shvarts' work impossible. The University has decided not to allow the rest of us make up our own minds. I am considerably more troubled by their action than by hers. ..For the University to ban Aliza Shvarts' artwork, to deny the rest of us the opportunity to make up our own minds, is to abdicate this 'special responsibility.' The University should admit they have made a mistake and reinstate Shvarts' artwork. Seth Kim-Cohen is a lecturer in the History of Art Department." ... more
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• Dada Magazine, Issues 1, 2, 3 (1917-1918)
" Appearing in July 1917, the first issue of Dada, subtitled Miscellany of Art and Literature, featured contributions from members of avant-garde groups throughout Europe, including Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Delaunay, and Wassily Kandinsky... Printed in newspaper format in both French and German editions, it embodies Dada's celebration of nonsense and chaos with an explosive mixture of manifestos, poetry, and advertisements - all typeset in randomly ordered lettering. Included is Tzara's "Dada Manifesto of 1918," which was read at Meise Hall in Zurich on July 23, 1918, and is perhaps the most important of the Dadaist manifestos." ... more
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• The Western Round Table on Modern Art (1949) by Ubu.com
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The Western Round Table on Modern Art in session
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"Participants included Marcel Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arnold Schoenburg, Mark Tobey, Gregory Bateson. Organizer Douglas MacAgy writes, "The object of the Round Table was to bring a representation of the best informed opinion of the time to bear on questions about art today (1949)."... more
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• Scathing Online Schoolmarm
Margaret Solton's response to Yale erred in banning Shvarts' art by Seth Kim-Cohen
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Aliza Shvarts, Yale art student, speaking in New York earlier this month. (Photo: YouTube)
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"An art professor at Yale wrestles with the Aliza Shvarts controversy. He attempts to open with humor, but what he’s written sounds pompous and illogical. Do Yale students think professors are gods? Robots? All teachers have always been people. Why is this a compromised position? Is he saying that as a person I find students who film themselves bleeding out repeated induced abortions in bathtubs and then mounting the images as a show a little troubling, while as a teacher I find it okay?"... more
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• That Ubu that you do
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Unpublished poster of the meeting. This concert of electronic music was organized around a game of chess between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage at the Toronto Ryerson Institute (Canada) on March 5th, 1968.
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"(Alfred) Jarry's legacy was formalised posthumously in 1948 by the founding of the Collège de 'Pataphysique in Paris. Its constitution asserts that all people are 'pataphysicians whether they know it or not, but paid-up Collège members have included artists... Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet... And its precepts have produced music more interesting and challenging than Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
"Duchamp created a number of musical compositions, many purely conceptual. But when Stephane Ginsburgh recorded Duchamp's 1913 opus Erratum Musical a few years back, he took into account Duchamp's observation that 'pataphysics involved "canned chance" and ensured all the piece's 88 piano notes were picked out in a random order with no emphasis on any one in particular"... more
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• Duchamp's Brother Raymond Duchamp-Villon sculpture
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The Horse (Le Cheval), 1914 (ca. 1930). Bronze and patina, 17 3/16 x 16 1/8 inches. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. 76.2553.25.
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"Raymond Duchamp-Villon's began work on the plaster original of The Horse, a composite image of an animal and machine, in 1914, finishing it on leaves from military duty in the fall. It was preceded by numerous sketches and by several other versions initiated in 1913. The original conception did not include the machine and was relatively naturalistic, as is evident in the early states of the small Horse and Rider of 1914. "... more |
• ...Ray, man! Man Ray Exhibition in Madrid
by paperhands
" "My mother told me I made my first man on paper when I was three", Man Ray wrote in his Self-portrait typed manuscript.
"Man Ray - Unconcerned But Not Indifferent" exhibition presents drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures, personal objects, and images from the Man Ray Trust collection founded by the artist's wife, Juliet Browner in Long Island, New York. The exhibition at the Colecciones ICO in Madrid is comprised of nearly 300 items and it is the first one to place his art in relation to his personal objects such as the bowler hat and cane, or objects from his Rue de Ferou Studio in Paris." ... more |
• Chess musings
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circletide on
Dichterische Fragmente
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"It was Duchamp, wasn't it, that gave up his art, his projects, for chess? Perhaps not true, but I remember it so. Did Duchamp not talk of chess being the highest form of art because it is - in the most basic form - a visual representation of human thought, but also because it, as does life, contains rules, symbolism, sign structures, competitiveness, relationship...? Is it not also true that it cannot be commercialised like art?" ... more |
• In the Tate Collection : Marcel Duchamp:
The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even, (The Green Box) 1934 [front cover]
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| The Green Box Notes " Felt covered cardboard containing one colour plate and ninety-three paper elements"...source |
"In 1934 Marcel Duchamp - or more accurately his alter ego Rrose Sélavy - published in green felt covered boxes ninety-four loose notes relating to the development and function of his magnum opus The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even, known familiarly as 'The Large Glass'... more |
• Todays Quote 04.18.08 by
michael ammerman
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| Marcel Duchamp, 2003
Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches; Painting by Jacques Moitoret , see more art inspired by Duchamp at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art in New York...more |
"Art is like a shipwreck... it's everyman for himself." Marcel Duchamp... more |
• MoMA Exhibits Book/Shelf
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Lucas Samaras, "Book" (1968)
The illustrated book has taken on many forms throughout the centuries and is now fair game for the participating artists in "Book/Shelf" on display at MoMA through July 7.
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March 26-July 7, 2008
"Book/Shelf begins with Marcel Duchamp's Unhappy Readymade (1919), a work created when the artist, while traveling, instructed his sister back home to hang a geometry book on her balcony and to let the wind flip and tear the pages. The artist explained, "The wind had to go through the book, choose its own problems, turn and tear out the pages." The piece-destroyed in the process of its making-was documented in Box in a Valise, the artist's famous "portable museum," which is displayed at the entrance of this exhibition"... more |
• 'The Cool School'
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| From left: Robert (Bob) Alexander, John Reed, Wallace Berman, Unknown Female and Walter Hopps at Ferus Gallery LA 1959 |
"Documentary. Directed by Morgan Neville. (Not rated. 86 minutes. At the Roxie.)"
"In 1963, Hopps gave his stake in Ferus to Blum so he could become director of the Pasadena Art Museum, where he staged the first American retrospective devoted to Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), whose influence was again on the rise. The event put Los Angeles and Hopps on the national art map. "... more |
• Marcel Duchamp and John Cage
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" 'Dreams that Money can Buy' : a film by Hans Richter with many artists. This is a Duchamp's fragment with music by John Cage."
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• Man Ray workshop
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| Clichés verres: hands fingers eye glass plate; drawing, 1941 |
At the Pinacothèque de Paris, from March 5 to June 1, 2008
"The Pinacotheque in Paris presents an unprecedented retrospective of works by Man Ray. For the first time, all aspects of the creation of the artist will be unveiled. An exceptional selection of works including drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures, objects and personal images directly from the Man Ray Trust (Long Island, New York). "
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• Entr'acte
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| "Dadaïsts Surrealists - photogram (image from a movie) more
Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray profile portrait on a roof playing chess extract from Francis Picabia and Rene Clair's movie Entr'acte" |
"Originally played as an intermission with no sound, this film is now a must for any fan/historian of fine art. Featuring cameos by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and other notables, Clair and Picabia's dada collage of different narratives, experimental use of the camera, and surrealist and absurdist images is the best example of experimental or dadaist films from the period. As unusual as it is to watch a film with no sound, the images created by the artists provide an extremely unique experience for the viewer. Fun for anyone, and especially interesting for those acquainted with the artists or the art movements themselves.-- by Jeff Dantowitz from Toronto, Canada"... more |
• The Man Ray Trust official web site
Galeries Virtuelles
"These virtual galleries offer a course set of themes (hands)
of the photographer Man Ray. Choose a gallery ...
to sail in the space. The galleries use Java technology and do not
function on Macintosh. Plug-In flash is necessary to visualize
the objets3D." ... more |
• Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren Second Part
Witch's Cradle
1943,
Director: Maya Deren (1917-1961)
Cast: Marcel Duchamp, B&W (incomplete)
"Witch's Cradle, a choreographed set of movements between the figure (played by Duchamp) and the camera. The film was intended to be an exploration of the magical qualities of objects in Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gallery, a space where Duchamp also exhibited. Witch's Cradle remains unfinished, the film recalling Duchamp's difficulty with completion. Duchamp's Large Glass or The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23) collected dust in his studio for seven years until it was shattered in transit. Duchamp celebrated the accident as the final element allowing the art to be considered complete. "... more |
• Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren First Part
"Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev - October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer. Also in 1943, Deren began making a film with Marcel Duchamp, The Witches' Cradle, which was never completed. At that time her social circle included the likes of André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, and Anaïs Nin." (from Wikipedia)
Read more about Deren at IMBd and find her papers at Boston University.
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• On Collecting Picabia's Writings and the Translation of His Major Poetry and Manifestos
by Len Bracken
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| New Picabia Books Bracken discusses in his review |
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DADA kisses in the spring water and its kisses must be the contact of water with fire," Picabia, Philosophical Dada, 1920"
"I had just turned off a narrow passageway onto a deserted street in an old district of Paris, a street that would have difficulty accommodating two-way traffic. The concrete and granite on both sides ran high, as the facades of apartment buildings or walls that led to courtyards. A white-haired man was walking away from me down the middle street...."Excuse me, sir," I said with a voice that was loud enough to reach him". more
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
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| The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box), September 1934
Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968)
Box containing collotype reproductions on various papers; Overall: 13 x 11 1/8 x 1 in. (33 x 28.3 x 2.5 cm)
Anonymous Gift, 2002 (2002.42a–vvvv) |
"The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. " See Time line entry about Marcel Duchamp"....
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
by Nan Rosenthal
"Duchamp has had a huge impact on twentieth-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists as 'retinal' art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted, he said, 'to put art back in the service of the mind. ' "
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• 2D Integrated Studio / Spring 08
Photomontage and Dadaism: A Closer Look at Two Visionaries, Ryan's Research
Photomontage and Dadaism: A Closer Look at Two Visionaries
By Ryan Brewer
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• Museum of Modern Art Presents Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s
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| Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp), Anémic Cinéma, 1926, 35mm film transferred to video (black and white, silent), 7 min., The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Acquired from the artist. ©2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp. |
"Richter's interest in experimental cinema was related to Duchamp's abstract optical tests with rotary discs and afterimages that in 1926 resulted in Anémic Cinema (also on view at MoMA), a film alternating shots of rotating spirals with discs inscribed with erotic puns".... more
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• Marcel Duchamp Redux
"Opening next month is Marcel Duchamp Redux, a special installation commemorating the 45th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's legendary retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum)".... more
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• The "Creative Act" by Marcel Duchamp
"Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity"... more
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• Alison Knowles and the Gift on
Histories and Theories of Intermedia
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| "Coeurs Volants." by Marcel Duchamp |
"Richard introduced me to Marcel Duchamp in order to execute the screen print "Coeurs Volants." The Something Else press needed permission to use the image of the flying hearts on a cover of a book called Sweethearts by Emmett Williams"...more
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• "Call for Artists: Urban Ready Mades"
2008-03-20 until 2008-09-23
Marcello's Art Factory
den Haag, , NL Netherlands
"'Marcello's Art Factory' in The Hague, Netherlands is currently hosting a project entitled 'Urban Ready Mades' which comes from the concept of "ready mades" made famous by artist Marcel Duchamp who was the first to introduce this oevre."
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What is an Urban Readymade?
Site calls for your participation: YOUR OWN URBAN READY-MADE...Simply place your sign and it becomes art !
Checklist of requirements and conditions to declare a URM
1. Is it a street, an object, a building, a view or an event?
2. Is it an urban- and / or industrial environment?
3. Do you think of yourself as an artist or an architect?
4. Is it a public or semi-public environment and easy accessible?
5. Is it a monument?
6. Is it a touristic attraction or tourist-trap?
7. Is it a work of art?
8. Is it allready a URM?
Only when you answer the questions 1 to 4 with YES
and the questions 5 to 8 with NO
than we could be talking about a true Urban Ready Made. |
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• Shallow Space - the theme of relief continues...
Henry Moore Institute Leeds Exhibitions
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| Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968): Rotoreliefs 1935 mixed media
Leeds Museums & Galleries (City Art Gallery) |
"Professor Brandon Taylor has curated a new display from the Leeds collections which develops the current season's exploration of relief sculpture".
Go to Henry Moore Institute Leeds Exhibitions
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• Ford, Breton, and the Contents
of the Duchamp View
• New
York Armory Show of 1913 - International Exhibition
of Modern Art
• Man
Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent: Book Review
Posted by Mr. Whiskets
• The Museum of Modern Art ,
New York City
• The Turner/Chico Museum to
Present Marcel Duchamp Art Exhibit/Lecture
March 12 - April 27, 2008
"The exhibition “Marcel Duchamp: About the
Large Glass and Related Works” will be held
at The Turner/Chico Museum, March 12 to April 27,
2008".
"The centerpiece of this exhibition will be a replica
of Duchamp’s major work The Large Glass that
was produced in 1990 by Chico students under the
direction of CSU, Chico Art Professor James McManus.
Related works include reconstructions of Fountain,
Three Standard Stoppages, and Bicycle. Joining these
objects are important works by Marcel Duchamp, borrowed
for this exhibition, including his Notes in a Green
Box and A l’infinitif."
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• Marcel Duchamp Redux Works
At Pasadena Museum
April 25 - December 8, 2008
"This year marks the 45th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s
legendary retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum,
now the Norton Simon Museum, from April 25 to December
8, 2008. Organized by Director Walter Hopps in 1963,
By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavythe
first-ever retrospective of the artist’s oeuvrefeatured
114 works of art, including major loans from Europe
and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Arensberg
collection".
More
info at HULIQ.com |
• DUCHAMP, MAN RAY, PICABIA
February 21 - May 26, 2008
"Curated by Jennifer Mundy, Head of Collection Research
at Tate, with assistance from Nicholas Cullinan,
Assistant Curator, Tate Modern, London, England.The
exhibition will travel to the Museu Nacional d’Art
de Catalunya, Barcelona from 19 June - 21 September
2008".
Review
in FT
More
info at Tate Modern |
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