Duchampian News & Views
Duchamp: “Sixteen Miles of String” (1942)
Author : marcelduchamp_admin September 11, 2008
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“Duchamp bought 16 miles of string, of which only one mile was used, to prepare an entanglement in which the visitor experienced difficulties in finding his way to the paintings, a metaphor for the difficulties which the layman often encounters in the attempt to understand modern painting”
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