Duchampian News & Views
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him
September 12, 2008Man 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,
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including the founder of the New York Dada movement, Marcel Duchamp. Man Ray and Duchamp remained close friends throughout their lives.” -
A new look at Art and Play
September 12, 2008 "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 o.. read more... -
Muybridge as Modernist Muse
September 12, 2008 "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 tel.. read more... -
A Little Dust, to Give a Room Character
September 12, 2008 "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. ".. read more... -
Joseph Kosuth
September 12, 2008” 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? “
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Last work of surrealist Marcel Duchamp discovered
September 12, 2008“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. “
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Surrealist Art – Intro
September 12, 2008 "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." .. read more... -
Art object’ stickers mysteriously appear, stirring discussion
September 12, 2008“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.”
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