Duchampian News & Views
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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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Original Copies: ‘The Art of Appropriation’ at MoMA
September 12, 2008“Nearby, Duchamp’s “L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved” (1965) consists simply of a playing-card image of the “Mona Lisa” mounted on a sheet signed by the artist. The artist has left this portrait mustache-less, unlike his infamous “L.H.O.O.Q.” of nearly a half-century before.” Exhibition until November 10 2008
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Chess from Duchamp to Damien Hirst
September 12, 2008“In 1927, Marcel Duchamp…married a young heiress called Lydie Sarazin-Lavassor. The honeymoon did not go well. “Duchamp spent most of the week studying chess problems,” recalled the artist’s close friend Man Ray, “and his bride, in desperate retaliation, got up one night when he was asleep and glued the chess pieces to the board.”
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(Re)make it new
September 12, 2008 "Johnson and Duchamp turned springs and shovels into art objects by renaming them, changing their context, casting them in new light. The shovel never changed–just the way we looked at it. ..Duchamp's shovel is still a shovel. John Gordon says that as a curator, he's ' looking for craftsmanship and intellectual engagement. This might be an object that appeals to me on a Christmas-gift level, but museologically I look for something more. It's hard to do good things that are .. read more... -
The genius of Duchamp?
September 12, 2008
Larry Evans on chess: Marcel Duchamp’s vexing problem“Many years ago [Francis] Neumann also submitted it to my column in Chess Life, offering a reward of $15 to anyone who either could solve it or prove there was no possible solution. ‘ I have since subjected this problem to the most powerful computers and I am now convinced that Duchamp has given us, in effect, a problem with no solution.'”
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Marcel Duchamp: Etant Donnes
September 12, 2008“This is the first exhibition to examine the genesis, construction, and reception of Etant donnes: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’eclairage (Given: 1° The Waterfall, 2° The Illuminating Gas), Marcel Duchamp’s enigmatic final masterwork that was secretly executed in New York during the last 20 years of his life and discovered in his studio soon after his death in October 1968. The exhibition will be on view from July 2009 to October 2009.”
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