Duchampian News & Views
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Dreams That Money Can Buy
September 11, 2008The film ” is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. Each of the seven surreal dream sequences in the diegesis is in fact the creation of a contemporary avant-garde and/or surrealist artist, as follows: Desire Max Ernst (Director/Writer);…Ruth, Roses and Revolvers Man Ray (Director/Writer); Discs Marcel Duchamp (Writer) “
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‘Erratum Musical’
September 11, 2008"The practice of cutting-up, appropriating and repurposing existing content in the creation of new artworks was central to 20th century artistic practice. From Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Erratum Musical’ (1913) which spliced together dictionary definitions of the word ‘imprimer’ with a score composed from notes pulled out of a hat…"
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Happy Birthday Berenice Abbott
September 11, 2008 BERENICE ABBOTT (1898–1991) "Berenice Abbott can be considered the photographer of New York City. A revolutionary documentary photographer, Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1898, and studied for one year at Ohio State University, Columbus, before moving to New York in 1918 to study sculpture. While in New York, Abbott met Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, two of the founders of the Dada movement"" .. read more... -
Duchamp in Buenos Aries : Exhibition
September 11, 2008“De la estadía porteña de nueve meses de Marcel Duchamp es relativamente poco lo que se sabe y gracias a la creación de unas pocas obras y a una decena de cartas.”
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Marcel Duchamp: A work that is not a work “of art”
September 11, 2008 MAM – MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA DE SÃO PAULO Curator: Elena Filipovic 15 July - 21 September "On the day marking its 60th birthday, July 15 (Tuesday), the Modern Art Museum of São Paulo presents Marcel Duchamp: A work that is not a work 'of art '. The exhibition takes its title from a questi.. read more... -
Picabia, Man Ray, Duchamp, des hEROS
September 11, 2008"Review: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia was on view at the Tate Modern, London in May. It traveled to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, where is on view from June 19 to September 21."
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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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Machinima and Up and Coming
September 11, 2008“Most of my reading and writing right now is concerned with how Surrealists theorized found objects. The principal figures I’m looking at, Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp were not officially inaugurated by Andre Breton into the Surrealist group but made some of the most interesting contributions to found object art with their assemblages and readymades.”
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