Duchampian News & Views
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Duchamp & The Indifferent Field of Possibilities
September 12, 2008"This segment is from my documentary on Dada titled, "Random Acts of Beauty: The Story of Dada." this segment examines Duchamp’s interest in randomness and chance as compared to the Zurich Dadaists. It is a different take altogether."
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Duchamp & the Hatrack
September 12, 2008"This segment is from my documentary on the Dada movement titled, ‘Random Acts of Beauty: The Story of Dada.’ Here, Stephen C Foster talks about Duchampian mind-games used to determine what qualifies as art. "
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Ranking the greatest artworks of the twentieth century
September 12, 2008 "His [David Galenson] statistical approach has led to what he says is a radically new interpretation of 20th-century art, one he is certain art historians will hate. It is based in part on how frequently an illustration of a work appears in textbooks. 'Demoiselles' came in at No. 1 with 28 illustrations....Marcel Duchamp's 1917 'Fountain' — a white urinal — was seventh with 18 illustrations, and his 1912 painting 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2' was ei.. read more... -
Photo bomber “Art Interventionists”
September 12, 2008“Critics will say that photo bombing hardly constitutes ‘art intervention,’ which is the intentional meddling into a pre-existing piece of artwork or even an art venue, like a gallery or museum. (The performance artist who took a hammer to Marcel Duchamp’s famous urinal — titled ‘Fountain’ — in Paris in 2006 and called it his own ‘art’ is a good example of an art interventionist. Same goes for an artist who manages to sneak his work into a museum.)
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What is Kinetic Art?
September 11, 2008
Avant-Garde Art in Motion Challenges the Observer“Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp’s output had considerable influence on the development of post-World War I Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the Western art world.”
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Interview with Marcel Duchamp
September 11, 2008“Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp’s output had considerable influence on the development of post-World War I Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the Western art world.”
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Dreams That Money Can Buy
September 11, 2008The film ” is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. Each of the seven surreal dream sequences in the diegesis is in fact the creation of a contemporary avant-garde and/or surrealist artist, as follows: Desire Max Ernst (Director/Writer);…Ruth, Roses and Revolvers Man Ray (Director/Writer); Discs Marcel Duchamp (Writer) “
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‘Erratum Musical’
September 11, 2008"The practice of cutting-up, appropriating and repurposing existing content in the creation of new artworks was central to 20th century artistic practice. From Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Erratum Musical’ (1913) which spliced together dictionary definitions of the word ‘imprimer’ with a score composed from notes pulled out of a hat…"
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