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DADA part two: Marcel Duchamp
   by Angela, DLC Blog

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"Everyone who hates art, or what art has come to symbolize in 'modern society' today and in history can look to Marcel Duchamp. This of course, is a contradictory statement that Duchamp would not approve of. His questions and art-from his submission of a bicycle wheel as an art piece (which is currently at the MOMA in New York), to his Mona Lisa with a moustache, and the cubist, 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' Duchamp's works are varied, layered, complicated, touching yet humorous." more

Art appreciator
   by Agagooga, Balderdash

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"Since the days of Duchamp and warhol, art can be understood in two ways: Art is a way of doing things, art is a way of seeing things." more

Marcel Duchamp Video Tribute-- Le Chaterie
   by pinkup, iikki

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"I have created a short video for the Vector Defenders (Vector Defenders) project, by OnClick studio (OnClick). It is a tribute to the Dada artist Marcel Duchamp's visual experiments, and music has been taken from the album Bailes Vespertinos. To be seen in Motion section at iikki.com " more

Military Avoidance: Marcel Duchamp and the 'Jura-Paris Road'
   by Kieran Lyons, The Tate

Troop Distribution and Positions of the French Army), 1905, Detail of Paris. National Archive, Kew Image source
"In 1905, the year of this War Office Report on French military resources, Marcel Duchamp was drawn into the 'net' of military conscription that was intended to incorporate every able-bodied twenty-one year old Frenchman into the national effort. Duchamp complied somewhat unwillingly but nevertheless managed to reduce his period of service " more

"Symbiotaxiplasm" = Duchamp's "infra-thin" ?
   by Thivai Abhor

View Magazine, special issue, designed by Duchamp included his new concept of the "infra thin"Image source
"Symbiotaxiplasm is a term conceived by the social science philosopher Arthur Bentley (a contemporary of John Dewey, see Art As Experience) that describes an action of interconnectedness...Perhaps this is something similar to what Marcel Duchamp meant by the infrathin­a poetic term describing the infinitely small difference between two things." more

Duchamp said...
   by Passionate Ornithology

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".. ' since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.' by Octavio Paz" more

John Cage playing chess with Joan La Barbara
   by Uncertain Times

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"Actually, Cage hadn't lost every single match with Duchamp. There was one that he definitely won, after a fashion. It happened in Toronto, in 1968. Cage had invited Duchamp and Teeny to be with him on the stage. All they had to do was play chess as usual..." more

The Unholy Trinity
   by Soma in Kinderland

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"Do you know Rrose Sélavy? No? Humm… Eros, c'est la vie… arroser la vie…Rrose, my dear, is a creation of three provocative artistic figures from 20th century's early years. Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia were good friends with the same sense of humour..." more

Yes, Duchamp's piece was a pivotal moment
   by Wrinkled Weasel

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"A while back, Roger Scruton, the philosopher and writer, wrote this piece on his very occasional blog: The literature of this industry is as empty as the neverending imitations of Duchamp's gesture. Nevertheless, it has left a residue of skepticism. If anything can count as art, then art ceases to have a point. All that is left is the curious but unfounded fact that some people like looking at some things, others like looking at others." more

Marcel Duchamp Lived Here That Long???
   by Stacy Horn

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"I looked up the address when I got home and freaking Marcel Duchamp lived there from 1942 until he died in 1968. How can that be? We had him that long, and so close (to where I live I mean)?? I had no idea. According to Wikipedia he died in France though, but did live in a Greenwich Village studio for many years. So maybe he didn't die here, but he lived here a long time and produced his last work of art here, years after everyone thought he had stopped making art." more

Duchamp's 3 Stoppages Étalon
   by Dingo on Raggit

3 Standard Stoppages, Marcel Duchamp, 1913-14Image source
"Many of the stories he tells just don't line up," Shearer says. Consider Three Standard Stoppages, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, a key early work. Toward the end of 1913, Duchamp said, in his Paris studio, he cut three lengths of thread, each just under one meter long, dropped them from a height of one meter, and affixed the results on three separate canvases---a new standard of measure, incorporating chance and randomness, for the new art of this century." more

Agreement between Proa and MAM-SP for Duchamp in Latin America
   by Curator, Elena Filipovic

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MAM – MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA DE SÃO PAULO: 15 July - 21 September, 2008

FUNDACION PROA:
November 19, 2008 - February, 2009

"Two years after an intensive investigation and production, Fundación Proa today shares with the MAM-SP the success obtained from the critics and public for the exhibition Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work "of art", inaugurated in São Paulo last July 15, constituting the artist's largest individual show in Latin America." more

The art factory and the death of the connoisseur
   by Richard Feigen , The Art Newspaper

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"In Duchamp's day the 'art world' was tiny and the initiates were ready for a breakthrough­for new ideas and new media, for 'dada'­and the big money wasn't there. Once we accept that the artist's hand is no longer necessary, only his idea, it's a short leap to market the concept that beauty is not only no longer essential, it can even be turned into a dirty, elitist' word." more

Duchamp's mystery
   by Prisc , thisOtherEden

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" He is famous. No doubt about it. He led the artists of his time to one of the greatest revolutions of all. He changed the whole idea of art, of what it is. And yet, was he actually laughing at his private joke? Laughing at those who followed him, believing they were following a new belief. Laughing that he had us all fooled, us who took his word. If it is true that it was all a lie, Would it make a difference?" more

le duchamp (2008) by Rafael Rozendaal
   by Cici Moss

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"Brand new work by artist Rafael Rozendaal. Be sure to also check out Rozendaal's JELLOTIME.COM, which was a Rhizome Commission in 2008." more

View A Nous La Liberte
   by emailoptinlist89rhe

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"A Nous La Liberte - Criterion Collection was an incredible movie! Both Jean Brlin and Inge Frss were amazing! The great cast includes Jean Brlin, Inge Frss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray...One of the all-time great comedy classics, Ren Clair's Nous la Libert is a skillful satire of the industrial revolution and the blind quest for wealth. Deftly integrating his signature musical-comedy technique with pointed social criticism." more

Duchamp's urinal and Tracey Emin's Bed
   by Paul Dalgarno , Sunday Herald

JJ Xi & Cai Yuan . Two Artists jump on Tracy Emin's Bed. Performance at Tate Britain, London, 1999
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"WHEN CHINESE performance artists Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi tried to urinate in a replica of Marcel Duchamp's famous latrine in the Tate Modern in 2000, their behaviour showed a distinct pattern. A year earlier, the duo had jumped up and down on the work of the unvictorious Turner Prize nominee, Tracey Emin. They called their performance Two Naked Men Jump Into Tracey's Bed. Emin had called her piece simply My Bed. Like Duchamp's latrine, the bed offered no easy answers and provoked extreme, mostly negative, reactions..." more

Why more Dadaism?
   by Charles Zigmund, Artdoxa

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"For nearly fifty years, since Pop Art began and dethroned the "high art" seriousness of Abstract Expressionism as a manifestation of elitism, the inheritance of Dadaism has ruled the art world. This philosophy, promulgated first 100 years ago by Marcel Duchamp and his colleagues, declares that art in the prior sense of a directed, purposeful activity separate from and "above" everyday reality, is an outmoded concept." more

Jump And Piss
   by Nadim Julien Samman, Art India

"As the team of JJ Xi and Cai Yuan wreaks havoc in the hallowed halls of prestigious art institutions, Nadim Julien Samman tells us more about the mischievous nature of their interventions."
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"On Oct 24th,1999, at London's Tate Gallery, the artists, JJ Xi
(b.1962) and Cai Yuan (b.1956) stripped down to their underpants before jumping on top of Emin's bed and engaging in a pillow fight...Yet, this wasn't conservative iconoclasm. What was at stake in the performance, Two Artists Jump on Tracey Emin's Bed, was the horizon of the Duchampian readymade." more

Epitaph, Poetry by Robert Desnos
   by DaniellaPirani, Poetry Visualized

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" In 1922 he published his first book, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms, with the title Rrose Selavy (based upon the name (pseudonym) of the popular French artist Marcel Duchamp)." more

ARTISTIC LICENSE: Duchamp's 'Bottle Rack' revisited
   by Mark Webber , theweekender.com

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"Duchamp purchased a common bottle-drying rack sometime in 1914 and brought it to his studio. Two years later, while traveling, he wrote to his sister and asked her to paint an inscription on the bottle rack because he had decided that it was sculpture 'readymade.' Unfortunately, she had already thrown it out." more

Reasons That We'll Always Have Paris
   by Karen Rosenberg , New York Times

ALEXANDER CALDER (American, 1898-1976)
The Star, 1960
Polychrome sheet metal and steel wire, 35 3/4 x 53 3/4 x 17 5/8", University of Kentucky Art Museum
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"A young Calder arrived in Paris as a realist painter and illustrator; within seven years he had been transformed into a Surrealist sculptor whose playful 'drawings in space' were admired by Marcel Duchamp, among others. " Duchamp coined the term "mobile" for describing Calder's moving sculptures. more

"MARCEL DUCHAMP : ' THE GREAT ARTIST OF TOMORROW WILL BE UNDERGROUND'
   by Esthétique , Samedi

Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray
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Marcel Duchamp said, "Therefore I am inclined, after this examination of the past, to believe that the young artist of tomorrow will refuse to base his work as over-simplified as that of the 'representative or non-representative' dilemma. I am convinced that, like Alice in Wonderland, he will be led to pass through the looking-glass fo the retina, to reach a more profound expression." more

Never mind the Pollocks
   by Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian (Hat tip : pollocksthebollocks.com)

Peggy Guggenheim in Venice
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"One day Pollock, Duchamp and Guggenheim had a row over a canvas she had commissioned for the foyer of her East Side townhouse in New York. At 20ft wide, it proved too big for the allotted space. Duchamp proposed cutting eight inches off one end. Pollock disappeared to get drunk, wandering back later into a party at Guggenheim's apartment and peeing into her fire." more

Book art by Marcel Duchamp…
   by withhiddennoise

Marcel Duchamp's Green Box Notes
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"In his designs for bookbindings and jackets, Duchamp often made user of the continuity between front and back: in the chess book L'Opposition et les cases conjuguées sont reconciliées, 1932; in the designs for Hebdomeros and Ubu, executed by Mary Reynolds, 1935..." more

The Anti-Retina Of Duchamp
   Posted in Video, Avant Garde by mbumba(Hat tip: Where The Pieces Fall)

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Marcel Duchamp videos... more

Painter to Poet: Dorothea Tanning
   by Andréa Fernandes , Mental_Floss Blog

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"In 1946, Tanning married Max Ernst in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. Their crowd also included Peggy Guggenheim (Ernst's third wife; Tanning was his fourth), Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Dylan Thomas, and Truman Capote." more

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him
   by Artist Quote

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Man Ray "met Alfred Stieglitz in 1913, and through Stieglitz's Gallery 291, he became acquainted with many of the most innovative artists of the time, including the founder of the New York Dada movement, Marcel Duchamp. Man Ray and Duchamp remained close friends throughout their lives." more

A new look at Art and Play
   by Caroline Armijo, Beyond Friendship Gate

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"But after trying to share my graduate work with others...how could I possibly capture all of the art created by these six amazing artists: Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Jean Tinguely (my personal favorite), Claes Oldenburg, Elizabeth Murray and Joseph Cornell...Well, thanks to the magic of the Internet and widgets, I can create content which gives you a glimpse into the breadth of these artists' creative genius. Plus I am hoping that it won't become hopelessly outdated within a week." more

Muybridge as Modernist Muse
   on PortlandArt.net

Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion, Plate 700, 1887 Collotype
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"Eadweard Muybridge understood that a single photograph was of little use when you are trying to understand the movement of an subject. Movement is inherently a function of moving through time and space. Muybridge's genius was that the even though a single photograph could only reveal a frozen moment in the movement of an object, a series of photographs are able to reveal a much more accurate description of movement...In Picasso and Duchamp's paintings, it is difficult to tell if it is the subject or the object that is moving. " more

A Little Dust, to Give a Room Character
    by Alice Elliott Dark, New York Times

"Dust Breeding" Marcel Duchamp/Man Ray (1920)
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"Several of the most influential modernist artists made much of dust. Marcel Duchamp grew it on plates of glass, and Man Ray photographed the results in a famous photo called "Dust Breeding." The glass was varnished and went on to become part of "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even," which you can see at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "more

Joseph Kosuth
    by Dzire's Wonderland

ONE AND THREE CHAIRS (1965)
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" A chair sits alongside a photograph of a chair and a dictionary definition of the word chair. Perhaps all three are chairs, or codes for one: a visual code, a verbal code, and a code in the language of objects, that is, a chair of wood. But isn't this last chair simply . . . a chair? Or, as Marcel Duchamp asked in his Bicycle Wheel of 1913, does the inclusion of an object in an artwork somehow change it? "more

Marcel Duchamp
    by Dario Rodighiero

"Marcel Duchamp by Ugo Mulas"
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"A tribute to Marcel Duchamp." more

Last work of surrealist Marcel Duchamp discovered
    by Fiona Govan, , The Telegraph

"The existence of the fireplace had been rumored after sketches were found amongst Duchamp's papers following his death Photo: MNCA"
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"The last ever art work created by the influential French surrealist Marcel Duchamp has been discovered in an apartment in in northeastern Spain...

The artist is believed to be responsible for a corner fireplace built within the residence in the resort of Cadaques in Catalonia where he spent the final months before his death in October 1968. " more

Surrealist Art - Intro
    by Aavey

"Cover of the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste, December 1924."
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"In 1941, Breton went to the United States, where he co-founded the short-lived magazine VVV with Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and the American artist David Hare. However, it was the American poet, Charles Henri Ford, and his magazine View which offered Breton a channel for promoting Surrealism in the United States. The View special issue on Duchamp was crucial for the public understanding of Surrealism in America." more

Art object' stickers mysteriously appear, stirring discussion
    by Steve Wideman , Post Crescent

"A sticker labels this pole at College Avenue and Oneida Street in downtown Appleton as "art object $100.00." The stickers mysteriously appeared throughout the business district. Post-Crescent photo by M.P. King"
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"No one knows where the dots came from, said Benjamin Shahin...'They are everywhere downtown. You'll see light poles valued at $1,' Shahin said... The stickers suggest a notion by the late French artist Marcel Duchamp of "ready-made" art: that an artist can elevate an ordinary object to the status of art simply by designating it as such, he said." more

Original Copies: 'The Art of Appropriation' at MoMA
    by JOHN GOODRICH , The New York Sun

Marcel Duchamp. (American, born France. 1887-1968). L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved. (1965). Playing card with colored ink on printed invitation, 8 1/4 x 5 3/8" (21 x 13.8 cm). Gift of Philip Johnson.
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"Nearby, Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved" (1965) consists simply of a playing-card image of the "Mona Lisa" mounted on a sheet signed by the artist. The artist has left this portrait mustache-less, unlike his infamous "L.H.O.O.Q." of nearly a half-century before." Exhibition until November 10 2008 more

Chess from Duchamp to Damien Hirst
    by Alastair Sooke, Telegraph.co.uk

Man Ray, Silver Chess Set, 1926, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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"In 1927, Marcel Duchamp...married a young heiress called Lydie Sarazin-Lavassor. The honeymoon did not go well. "Duchamp spent most of the week studying chess problems," recalled the artist's close friend Man Ray, "and his bride, in desperate retaliation, got up one night when he was asleep and glued the chess pieces to the board." more

(Re)make it new
    by William Bostwick , loveindustrialdesign.com

"In Advance of the Broken Arm" or Shovel
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"Johnson and Duchamp turned springs and shovels into art objects by renaming them, changing their context, casting them in new light. The shovel never changed–just the way we looked at it. ..Duchamp's shovel is still a shovel. John Gordon says that as a curator, he's ' looking for craftsmanship and intellectual engagement. This might be an object that appeals to me on a Christmas-gift level, but museologically I look for something more. It's hard to do good things that are witty because a one-liner isn't funny after a while.'" more

The genius of Duchamp?
   Larry Evans on chess: Marcel Duchamp's vexing problem
    by Susan Polgar

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"Many years ago [Francis] Neumann also submitted it to my column in Chess Life, offering a reward of $15 to anyone who either could solve it or prove there was no possible solution. ' I have since subjected this problem to the most powerful computers and I am now convinced that Duchamp has given us, in effect, a problem with no solution.'" more

Marcel Duchamp: Etant Donnes
    by ruzik_tuzik, Huliq News

Marcel Duchamp, Interior view of Etant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall /2. The Illuminating Gas), 1946-1966 Image source
"This is the first exhibition to examine the genesis, construction, and reception of Etant donnes: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'eclairage (Given: 1° The Waterfall, 2° The Illuminating Gas), Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic final masterwork that was secretly executed in New York during the last 20 years of his life and discovered in his studio soon after his death in October 1968. The exhibition will be on view from July 2009 to October 2009." more

Duchamp & The Indifferent Field of Possibilities
    by Byron Caplan

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"This segment is from my documentary on Dada titled, "Random Acts of Beauty: The Story of Dada." this segment examines Duchamp's interest in randomness and chance as compared to the Zurich Dadaists. It is a different take altogether." more

Duchamp & the Hatrack
    by Byron Caplan

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"This segment is from my documentary on the Dada movement titled, 'Random Acts of Beauty: The Story of Dada.' Here, Stephen C Foster talks about Duchampian mind-games used to determine what qualifies as art. " more

Ranking the greatest artworks of the twentieth century
    by Patricia Cohen, International Herald Tribune

Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912). Oil on canvas. 57 7/8" x 35 1/8". Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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"His [David Galenson] statistical approach has led to what he says is a radically new interpretation of 20th-century art, one he is certain art historians will hate. It is based in part on how frequently an illustration of a work appears in textbooks.

'Demoiselles'  came in at No. 1 with 28 illustrations....Marcel Duchamp's 1917 'Fountain' — a white urinal — was seventh with 18 illustrations, and his 1912 painting 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2' was eighth with 16." more

Photo bomber "Art Interventionists"
    by Monica Corcoran , LA Times

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"Critics will say that photo bombing hardly constitutes 'art intervention,' which is the intentional meddling into a pre-existing piece of artwork or even an art venue, like a gallery or museum. (The performance artist who took a hammer to Marcel Duchamp's famous urinal -- titled 'Fountain' -- in Paris in 2006 and called it his own 'art' is a good example of an art interventionist. Same goes for an artist who manages to sneak his work into a museum.) more

What is Kinetic Art?
    Avant-Garde Art in Motion Challenges the Observer
    by Brenda Ann Bur

From David Pescovitz of BoingBoing "Bicycle Wheel was the first of a class of objects that Duchamp called his "readymades." He created twenty-one of them, all between 1915 and 1923." Image source
"Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output had considerable influence on the development of post-World War I Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the Western art world." more

Interview with Marcel Duchamp
    by Gluon-Symmetry

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"Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output had considerable influence on the development of post-World War I Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the Western art world." more

Dreams That Money Can Buy
    by zeno

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The film " is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. Each of the seven surreal dream sequences in the diegesis is in fact the creation of a contemporary avant-garde and/or surrealist artist, as follows: Desire Max Ernst (Director/Writer);...Ruth, Roses and Revolvers Man Ray (Director/Writer); Discs Marcel Duchamp (Writer) " more

• Marcel Duchamp's Birthday today : July 28, 1887

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'Erratum Musical'
    by Lina Dzuverovic

"The directions behind Marcel Duchamp's Erratum Musical are deceptively simple. Each note on a given keyboard is played only once, the order of the notes is determined by random draw, and there are no instructions for how the notes are to be played. A Dadaist joke? On the contrary, it yields intricate music and a primer for discussing how sound relates to emotion." Image source
"The practice of cutting-up, appropriating and repurposing existing content in the creation of new artworks was central to 20th century artistic practice. From Marcel Duchamp's 'Erratum Musical' (1913) which spliced together dictionary definitions of the word 'imprimer' with a score composed from notes pulled out of a hat..." more

Happy Birthday Berenice Abbott

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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898–1991)
"Berenice Abbott can be considered the photographer of New York City. A revolutionary documentary photographer, Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1898, and studied for one year at Ohio State University, Columbus, before moving to New York in 1918 to study sculpture. While in New York, Abbott met Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, two of the founders of the Dada movement"" more

Duchamp in Buenos Aries : Exhibition

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"De la estadía porteña de nueve meses de Marcel Duchamp es relativamente poco lo que se sabe y gracias a la creación de unas pocas obras y a una decena de cartas."" more

Marcel Duchamp: A work that is not a work "of art"
    by Lee Wells

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MAM – MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA DE SÃO PAULO
Curator: Elena Filipovic
15 July - 21 September

"On the day marking its 60th birthday, July 15 (Tuesday), the Modern Art Museum of São Paulo presents Marcel Duchamp: A work that is not a work 'of art '. The exhibition takes its title from a question that Marcel Duchamp wrote down one day in 1913: "Can one make works that are not 'of art'?" more

Picabia, Man Ray, Duchamp, des hEROS
    by L. Brandon Krall

"Man Ray, The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows, 1916. Oil on Canvas, 132.1 x 186.4 cm. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London, 2008."Image source
"Review: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia was on view at the Tate Modern, London in May. It traveled to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, where is on view from June 19 to September 21." more

Elsa Schiaparelli, Surrealist Star
    by David Motta

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"Elsa Schiaparelli was an influential Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she dominated fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, her designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborator Salvador Dali...Elsa began working for Gaby [Picabia, ex-wife of French Dadaist artist Francis Picabia] who introduced her to artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray." more

Machinima and Up and Coming
    by The Recycled Cinema

Marcel Duchamp's "readymade", Bottlerack
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"Most of my reading and writing right now is concerned with how Surrealists theorized found objects. The principal figures I'm looking at, Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp were not officially inaugurated by Andre Breton into the Surrealist group but made some of the most interesting contributions to found object art with their assemblages and readymades." more

'ALL ARTISTS ARE NOT CHESS PLAYERS" :
   Allan Savage on Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
    by Michael Leonard

1911. Oil on canvas 108 x 101 cm. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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"For Marcel Duchamp, chess was almost everything. As his friend, the author Henri-Pierre Roché, noted: "He needed a good chess game like a baby needs his bottle." It featured throughout his art career, from his early painting Portrait of Chess Players (1911) to Reunion, the performance/chess game he staged with John Cage in 1968 on an electronically prepared board." more

Jeu d'échecs avec Marcel Duchamp
    by harry wanders

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"This film records an in-depth interview with Duchamp which took place five years before his death, at the time of his first ever one-man show (at the Pasadena Art Museum). It records for posterity Duchamp talking about his life, his ideas on art, why he chose to continue living in America after fleeing France in 1915, and why he virtually abandoned his work as an artist in 1923." more

Machinima and Up and Coming
    work by The Recycled Cinema

Marcel Duchamp's "readymade", Bottlerack Image source
"Most of my reading and writing right now is concerned with how Surrealists theorized found objects. The principal figures I'm looking at, Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp were not officially inaugurated by Andre Breton into the Surrealist group but made some of the most interesting contributions to found object art with their assemblages and readymades." more

Davy between painting, photography
    by Alex Supartono, Contributor, Jakarta

Photo credit for Duchamp's "Fountain" 1917, was given to Alfred Steiglitz ...but there is no negative or other record other than Steiglitz's mention of it in a letter. Image source
"In his letter to Alfred Steiglitz -- the father of American photography -- Marcel Duchamp wrote: "You know exactly how I feel about photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable." The letter is dated May 22, 1922." more

Duchamp: "Sixteen Miles of String" (1942)
    Posted by Wrong

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"Duchamp bought 16 miles of string, of which only one mile was used, to prepare an entanglement in which the visitor experienced difficulties in finding his way to the paintings, a metaphor for the difficulties which the layman often encounters in the attempt to understand modern painting" more

Ducham en Barcelona
    by A-Desk Media
"See video of new "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia" exhibition in Spain    more

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia Exhibit at Museo Nacional D'Art de Catalunya
    by Art Knowledge News

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"BARCELONA - This exhibition aims to chart the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figures in early twentieth-century art, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. Together they created the Dada movement in New York during the First World War, and, unusually within the history of modern art, they remained friends, with periods of varying intensity, throughout their lives. On view 26 June through 21 September, 2008." Visit Museo Nacional D'Art de Catalunya at : http://www.mnac.es
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Wee exhibit, big scandal
    by Angela Bennie

"First turn... a replica of Mercel Duchamp's original 'readymade' Bicycle Wheel."
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"Which is perhaps why Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the curator of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, has placed Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel right at the centre of her huge line-up of contemporary art in this year's Biennale program, to which she has attached the slogan "Revolution - Forms that Turn" as her overriding theme. 'A revolution is a turn and a return,' she says. ' It is also a sudden shift in perspective, a turning of perspectives, which is what Duchamp has done. So with this Biennale I am opening up the meaning of the word revolution.'" more

Marsden Hartley exhibit at Amon Carter shows darker vision of the West
    By CHARLES DEE MITCHELL

"Painting, Number 5," by Marsden Hartley, 1914-5, oil on canvas, 39 1/2 by 31 3/4 inches, Whitney Museum of American Art
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"[Marsden] Hartley returned to New York City in 1919, where he became an unlikely member of the Société Anonyme, the avant-garde group headed by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Katherine Dreier. Hartley was attracted to the freedom of the group, but he was at heart a much more traditional artist and he lasted only seven months." more

PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP: A COLLECTORS' PRIZE
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On June 24, 2008, the exhibition of Tatiana Trouvé, the winner of the 2007 Prix Marcel Duchanp, opens at the Centre Pompidou. Image source
"The Marcel Duchamp Prize was created in 2000 by the ADIAF, (Association for the international distribution of French art), the largest group of private and amateur contemporary art collectors in France, as an initiative, amongst others, for promoting French artists internationally. Its aim is to encourage all new art forms that stimulate contemporary creati