Duchampian News & Views
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Jump And Piss
September 12, 2008“On Oct 24th,1999, at London’s Tate Gallery, the artists, JJ Xi
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(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.” -
Epitaph, Poetry by Robert Desnos
September 12, 2008” 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).”
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ARTISTIC LICENSE: Duchamp’s ‘Bottle Rack’ revisited
September 12, 2008“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.”
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Reasons That We’ll Always Have Paris
September 12, 2008“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
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Duchamp, among others. ” Duchamp coined the term “mobile” for describing Calder’s moving sculptures. -
“MARCEL DUCHAMP : ‘ THE GREAT ARTIST OF TOMORROW WILL BE UNDERGROUND’
September 12, 2008Marcel 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.”
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Never mind the Pollocks
September 12, 2008“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.”
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Book art by Marcel Duchamp…
September 12, 2008“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…”
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The Anti-Retina Of Duchamp
September 12, 2008Posted in Video, Avant Garde by mbumba(Hat tip: Where The Pieces Fall)
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Painter to Poet: Dorothea Tanning
September 12, 2008 "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.".. read more...