Duchampian News & Views
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Surrealist Enrico Donati Dies at 99
September 11, 2008“Enrico Donati, an Italian-born American painter and sculptor considered by many in the art world to be the last of the Surrealists, died at his home in Manhattan Enrico Donati (b.1909) was an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth…he was clearly drawn to Surrealism. This was reinforced by meeting André Breton and coming into contact with Duchamp and the other European Surrealists in New York at the time.” …
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Artwork Censored …like Duchamp’s urinal. Yale erred in banning Shvarts’ art
September 11, 2008 "....Unfortunately, the (Yale) University has banned her work from the Senior Project Show, making a first-hand encounter with Shvarts' work impossible. The University has decided not to allow the rest of us make up our own minds. I am considerably more troubled by their action than by hers. ..For the University to ban Aliza Shvarts' artwork, to deny the rest of us the opportunity to make up our own minds, is to abdicate this 'special responsibility.' The University should ad.. read more... -
Dada Magazine, Issues 1, 2, 3 (1917-1918)
September 10, 2008 " Appearing in July 1917, the first issue of Dada, subtitled Miscellany of Art and Literature, featured contributions from members of avant-garde groups throughout Europe, including Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Delaunay, and Wassily Kandinsky... Printed in newspaper format in both French and German editions, it embodies Dada's celebration of nonsense and chaos with an explosive mixture of manifestos, poetry, and advertisements - all typeset in randomly ordered lettering. Includ.. read more... -
The Western Round Table on Modern Art (1949)
September 10, 2008“Participants included Marcel Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arnold Schoenburg, Mark Tobey, Gregory Bateson. Organizer Douglas MacAgy writes, “The object of the Round Table was to bring a representation of the best informed opinion of the time to bear on questions about art today (1949).”…
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Scathing Online Schoolmarm
September 10, 2008 Margaret Solton's response to Yale erred in banning Shvarts' art by Seth Kim-Cohen"An art professor at Yale wrestles with the Aliza Shvarts controversy. He attempts to open with humor, but what he’s written sounds pompous and illogical. Do Yale students think professors are gods? Robots? All teachers have always been people. Why is this a compromised position? Is he saying that as a person I find students who film themselves bleeding out repeated induced abortions in bathtu.. read more... -
That Ubu that you do
September 10, 2008“(Alfred) Jarry’s legacy was formalised posthumously in 1948 by the founding of the Collège de ‘Pataphysique in Paris. Its constitution asserts that all people are ‘pataphysicians whether they know it or not, but paid-up Collège members have included artists… Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet… And its precepts have produced music more interesting and challenging than Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.
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Duchamp’s Brother Raymond Duchamp-Villon sculpture
September 10, 2008“Raymond Duchamp-Villon’s began work on the plaster original of The Horse, a composite image of an animal and machine, in 1914, finishing it on leaves from military duty in the fall. It was preceded by numerous sketches and by several other versions initiated in 1913. The original conception did not include the machine and was relatively naturalistic, as is evident in the early states of the small Horse and Rider of 1914. “…
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…Ray, man! Man Ray Exhibition in Madrid
September 10, 2008 " "My mother told me I made my first man on paper when I was three", Man Ray wrote in his Self-portrait typed manuscript. "Man Ray - Unconcerned But Not Indifferent" exhibition presents drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures, personal objects, and images from the Man Ray Trust collection founded by the artist's wife, Juliet Browner in Long Island, New York. The exhibition at the Colecciones.. read more...