Duchampian News & Views
Banksy Film Evokes Duchamp
Author : marcelduchamp_admin April 30, 2010
The artist as blind spotBanksy occluded in "Exit Through the Gift Shop" Image Source
Reviews of the new film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" often invoke Duchamp as the patron saint of the deadpan artistic fake-out. While it would be simplistic to dismiss the Fountain as what the British would call a "piss take," there is something Duchampian in the play between simulacrum and authenticity that’s apparently at stake here.
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