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 Who is Marcel Duchamp?

1.
 Duchamp's Biography
2.
 Excerpts from "Great Modern Masters — Duchamp"
3.
 What some of Duchamp's contemporaries had to say
4.
 Marcel Duchamp's Artwork

Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp, Pocket Chess Set of 1943 illustrates his 2D chess pieces
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   Duchampian News & Reviews from institutions, scholars and fans

• Marcel Duchamp Video Tribute-- Le Chaterie
   by pinkup, iikki
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"I have created a short video for the Vector Defenders (Vector Defenders) project, by OnClick studio (OnClick). It is a tribute to the Dada artist Marcel Duchamp's visual experiments, and music has been taken from the album Bailes Vespertinos. To be seen in Motion section at iikki.com " more

• Military Avoidance: Marcel Duchamp and the 'Jura-Paris Road'
   by Kieran Lyons, The Tate
Troop Distribution and Positions of the French Army), 1905, Detail of Paris. National Archive, Kew Image source
"In 1905, the year of this War Office Report on French military resources, Marcel Duchamp was drawn into the 'net' of military conscription that was intended to incorporate every able-bodied twenty-one year old Frenchman into the national effort. Duchamp complied somewhat unwillingly but nevertheless managed to reduce his period of service " more

• "Symbiotaxiplasm" = Duchamp's "infra-thin" ?
   by Thivai Abhor
View Magazine, special issue, designed by Duchamp included his new concept of the "infra thin"Image source
"Symbiotaxiplasm is a term conceived by the social science philosopher Arthur Bentley (a contemporary of John Dewey, see Art As Experience) that describes an action of interconnectedness...Perhaps this is something similar to what Marcel Duchamp meant by the infrathin­a poetic term describing the infinitely small difference between two things." more

• Duchamp said...
   by Passionate Ornithology
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".. ' since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.' by Octavio Paz" more

• John Cage playing chess with Joan La Barbara
   by Uncertain Times
Cage and Duchamp in Toronto
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"Actually, Cage hadn't lost every single match with Duchamp. There was one that he definitely won, after a fashion. It happened in Toronto, in 1968. Cage had invited Duchamp and Teeny to be with him on the stage. All they had to do was play chess as usual..." more

 
   Marcel Duchamp Created Original Optical Illusion Machines
 

Duchamp Rotating Glass Plates
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Duchamp
Rotorelief Discs
(1923)
Try Duchamp's invention that allows you to see 3D Depth with One Eye for Rotoreliefs
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Duchamp
Rotating Glass Plates
(1920)
See multiple illusions of solid shapes generated from separate moving parts

Yale owns Rotary Glass Plates
Duchamp
Rotary Demisphere
(1925)
MOMA owns Duchamp's 3D Depth effect Demisphere (1920)

 
 
   In his Green Box Notes, Duchamp wrote about an optical illusion he called the "Wilson Lincoln Effect"

 
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Green Box Notes Duchamp wrote about an optical illusion he called the Wilson Lincoln Effect - French
French
Green Box Notes Duchamp wrote about an optical illusion he called the Wilson Lincoln Effect - English
English
Wilson Lincoln Effect
Animation by Robert Slawinski at Art Science Research Laboratory.

 
 

 Readymade Hatrack? Maybe not...

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Readymade Hatrack
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  "Network of Stoppages"
    at The Museum of Modern Art Duchamp created from multiple works. See animation.

Network of Stoppages
 
    Slideshow of ManRay's Portraits of Duchamp
ManRay's Portraits of Duchamp



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