| Surrealist Art - Intro |
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By Aavey
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posted:
09-12-08
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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 Surrealis ...more |
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| Last work of surrealist Marcel Duchamp discovered |
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By Fiona Govan, , The Telegraph
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posted:
09-12-08
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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 ...more |
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| Joseph Kosuth |
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By Dzire's Wonderland
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posted:
09-12-08
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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 ...more |
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| A Little Dust, to Give a Room Character |
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By Alice Elliott Dark, New York Times
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posted:
09-12-08
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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 Bar ...more |
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