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Richard Hamilton Remembers Duchamp

Author : marcelduchamp_admin Teeny and Marcel Duchamp flank Richard Hamilton (second from left) and other seminal Los Angeles art figures, Las Vegas 1963. Image Source

Now 88, Richard Hamilton, father of pop art and transcriber of the notes contained in Duchamp’s Green Box, is still active and profoundly influential if not famous. In a recent in-depth interview, he looks fondly back to his encounters with Duchamp (“the most charming person imaginable”) while blasting his “ignorant” descendants in the world of conceptual art.

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