Duchampian News & Views
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L’Art: Gas lighting
April 17, 2009"Opening this week it the Garrick Player’s production of The Gas Heart, a nonsensical play derived from the Dada art movement in the 1920’s…The Gas Heart was written by one of the key figures of the Dada movement, Tristan Tzara. The play, as described by the Tzara, is the greatest three-act hoax of the century"
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Theater Review:
April 17, 2009 "A play that tries to do almost too much — dealing with love, Lenin, Dada and the "death of art” in a little over two hours — gets enough of it right to make a vivid impression on spectators. 'The Dada Play,' a script by visiting Canadian author Mieko Ouchi, is on stage through Sunday at the University of Oklahoma’s Lab Theatre in Old Science Hall.".. read more...
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“Surrealism and Beyond” at
April 10, 2009 "Surrealism and Beyond", which runs until May 17 at the Cincinnati Museum of Art, showcases surrealist and dada art from the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Cincinatti is the only US venue for the exhibit, which " features a glorious mix of works by every major figure from the dada and surrealist movements: Jean Arp, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Hannah Hoch, Rene Magritte, Man Ray and Kurt Schwitters,.. read more...
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Duchamp: Artist as Celebrity
April 10, 2009 In a review of the show "Inventing Marcel Duchamp:The Dynamics of Portraiture" at the National Portrait Galley, Blake Gopnik argues that " for Duchamp, portraiture was all about demolishing our stale ideas about an artist - or a person - as a single, stable thing." Rather than use his self-portraits to present himself as he actually was and define his identity, Duchamp used them to invent several alternate identities, including R.Mutt and Rrose Selev.. read more... -
Marcel Duchamp and Portraiture
April 3, 2009 In her article New Smithsonian exhibt shows Marcel Duhcamp's influance on Warhol, Jasper Johns, Marsha Ducbrow defends the National Portrait Gallery's decision to show an exhibit about Marcel Duhamp, an artist not known for his portraits. She belives that while Duchamp did not actually make many portraits, he "revolutionized portraiture. And he greatly influenced artists including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, among other key 20th and 21st century artists whose work.. read more... -
A Pleasing Secret History: Andrei Codrescu’s Posthuman Dada Guide
April 3, 2009 Eli Epstein-Deutsch reviews Andrei Codrescu's new book, The Posthuman Dada Guide , which he calls, "a hard-edged, rapier-like volume, perfect for sliding into a back pocket of skinny hipster pants or stabbing into the complacent underbelly of bourgeois (or bourgeois-bohemian) society...it offers a headier-than-usual tour of the early-1900s avant-garde, sprinkled with sex appeal for the would-be MySpace-age revolutionary.".. read more... -
The Stettheimer Dollhouse
April 3, 2009 A new book, The Stettheimer Dollhouse, tells the fascinating story of the Stettheimer Dollhouse. The dollhouse was built over nearly two decades by Carrie Walter Stettheimer, starting in the 1920s. What makes the dollhouse extraordinary is that all the art on its walls consists of minature versions of famous paintings. Stettheimer knew many of the great artists of her time personally, so these reproductions are often by the original artist. One s.. read more... -
“The Quick and the Dead” at the Walker Art Center
April 3, 2009 From April 25 to September 27,The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN will show the exhibit "The Quick and the Dead" which focuses on the history of conceptual art. The exhibit "juxtaposes a core group of works from the 1960s and ‘70s with more recent examples that might only loosely qualify as conceptual" and includes many works that have never been shown before. It also includes work by Marcel Duchamp as well as other innovators in the.. read more... -
Marcel Duchamp & l’erotisme
March 27, 2009The new book "Marcel Duchamp & l’érotisme gathers the "contributions of international art historians and critics for a symposium on the theme Marcel Duchamp & erotisme in Orleans University, France" in 2005. The book is available only in French.
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