Duchampian News & Views
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Duchamp’s concept “inframince”
September 11, 2008“Aesthetic concept developed by Marcel Duchamp for whom it generally characterised a thickness (“épaisseur”), a separation, a difference, an interval between two things, in general little perceptible. The inframince qualifies a distance or a difference that you cannot perceive, but that you can only imagine. The best example of it, is the ‘infra-mince separation between the bang of a gun (very near) and the mark of appearance of the mark of the bullet on the target.’ “
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Duchamp en Buenos Aires
September 11, 2008"This DVD is a strictly limited edition catalogue of 1.000.
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Each numbered and hand signed by the artist, curator and researcher Marcelo Gutman. You can see a hand made video of the exhibition here [on YouTube] " -
Marcel Duchamp’s masterwork
September 11, 2008“In 1969’s Art Bulletin, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s newsletter, [the late] Anne d’Harnoncourt and Walter Hopps offered the history of and an analysis for Marcel Duchamp’s masterwork, Etant Donnés… Also included in the Bulletin was an amazing backstage look at the process. Between 1965 and 1968, Ducchamp’s studio was housed in suite 40 at 80 E. 11th Street in NYC, across from a union office. Denise Brown Hare visited him and captured the piece in progress.”
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The Dada Baroness
September 11, 2008“One of the completely forgotten names–but a name well-known among the literati of the 1920’s–is that of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927). This enigmatic, gender-bending artist, a friend and collaborator of Duchamp, Man Ray and Djuna Barnes, is considered by art historians to be the first New York Dadaist.”
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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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