Duchampian News & Views
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DADA part two: Marcel Duchamp
October 8, 2008 "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.. read more... -
Art appreciator
October 7, 2008“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.”
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Marcel Duchamp Video Tribute– Le Chaterie
October 6, 2008 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.. read more... -
Military Avoidance: Marcel Duchamp and the ‘Jura-Paris Road’
October 3, 2008 "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 ".. read more... -
“Symbiotaxiplasm” = Duchamp’s “infra-thin” ?
October 2, 2008“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 infrathin¡©a poetic term describing the infinitely small difference between two things.”
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Duchamp said…
October 1, 2008“.. ‘ 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”
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John Cage playing chess with Joan La Barbara
September 30, 2008“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…”
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The Unholy Trinity
September 29, 2008"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…"
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Yes, Duchamp’s piece was a pivotal moment
September 26, 2008A 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."
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