Duchampian News & Views
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He was ‘Nouveau’ when it was new
September 11, 2008 Robbe-Grillet and the other so-called New Novelists, including Michel Butor, Nathalie Sarraute and Claude Simon, wanted to do in literature what others had done in art just as Marcel Duchamp had deconstructed human motion in "Nude Descending a Staircase" and the Abstract Expressionists had valorized gesture, the movement of a brush stroke itself, over representation. Robbe-Grillet believed that writing should reveal the archaeology of its own construction, sho.. read more... -
The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America
September 11, 2008 Exhibition Venues • Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA: April 23–August 20, 2006 • The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC: October 14, 2006–January 21, 2007 • Dallas Museum of Art, TX: June 10–September 16, 2007 • Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN: October 26, 2007–February 3, 2008 • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT: Fall 2010 .. read more... -
Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Wit
September 11, 2008“Friendly with Duchamp, she [Hedda Sterne] exhibited alongside Pollock and Newman, drank with de Kooning and held glorious debates with Harold Rosenberg. Greenberg chronicled her and “Life” magazine captured her several times, the most famous photo of which is Art History-101 iconic. She refused to be classified stylistically or put “in a box.” During her 70-year career she appropriated from Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and any other canon that served her.”
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Elsa Schiaparelli, Surrealist Star
September 11, 2008“Elsa Schiaparelli was an influential Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she dominated fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, her designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborator Salvador Dali…Elsa began working for Gaby [Picabia, ex-wife of French Dadaist artist Francis Picabia] who introduced her to artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray.”
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Duchamp: A Game of Chess
September 11, 2008“This film records an in-depth interview with Duchamp which took place five years before his death, at the time of his first ever one-man show (at the Pasadena Art Museum). It records for posterity Duchamp talking about his life, his ideas on art, why he chose to continue living in America after fleeing France in 1915, and why he virtually abandoned his work as an artist in 1923.”
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Releated works: marcel duchamp, Harold E. Edgerton
September 11, 2008“Harold Eugene “Doc” Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. For example; today, the electronic flash is completely associated with the field of photography.”
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Man Ray: Avant-Garde Alchemist
September 11, 2008 "So, how does someone named Emmanuel Radnitzky end up with a stylish moniker such as 'Man Ray'? Well, his family surname was changed to 'Ray' in 1912 at the suggestion of Man Ray's brother. The family surname was changed as a reaction to the anti-Semitism that was rampant in Brooklyn, New York at the time. Emmanuel was called 'Manny"'for short and Emmanuel eventually shortened his nickname to 'Man' and added that to his new surname 'Ray' He would gradually begin to use his ne.. read more... -
Miller And The Matisses
September 11, 2008“Alexina Sattler (1906-1995) entered into the Matisse family through her marriage to Pierre Matisse [8]. The American-born artistnicknamed “teeny” because of her petite staturewent to Paris in 1921 to pursue her artistic vocation. She married Pierre in 1929…She divorced Pierre in 1949, and later married Marcel Duchamp in 1954, although she had originally met him in 1923.”
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Pompidou Centre apologizes for broken artwork
September 11, 2008“The Pompidou Centre had promised to take additional measures to prevent damage to artworks after two contemporary works from its Los Angeles: 1955-1985 exhibition were broken in September 2006.That incident followed an attack in January 2006 during which a man used a hammer to damage an upturned urinal called “Fontaine” (Fountain) by Marcel Duchamp.”
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