Duchampian News & Views
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Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren Second Part
September 10, 2008 Witch's Cradle 1943, Director: Maya Deren (1917-1961) Cast: Marcel Duchamp, B&W (incomplete) "Witch's Cradle, a choreographed set of movements between the figure (played by Duchamp) and the camera. The film was intended to be an exploration of the magical qualities of objects in Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gal.. read more... -
Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren First Part
September 10, 2008 "Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev - October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer. Also in 1943, Deren began making a film with Marcel Duchamp, The Witches' Cradle, which was never completed. At that time her social circle included the likes of André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, and Anaïs Nin." .. read more... -
On Collecting Picabia’s Writings and the Translation of His Major Poetry and Manifestos
September 10, 2008 "DADA kisses in the spring water and its kisses must be the contact of water with fire," Picabia, Philosophical Dada, 1920""I had just turned off a narrow passageway onto a deserted street in an old district of Paris, a street that would have difficulty accommodating two-way traffic. The concrete and granite on both sides ran high, as the facades of apartment buildings or walls that led to courtyards. A white-haired man was walking away from me down the mi.. read more... -
Metropolitan Museum of Art – Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
September 10, 2008 "The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. " See Time line entry about Marcel Duchamp".... Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) by Nan Rosenthal .. read more... -
2D Integrated Studio / Spring 08
September 10, 2008Photomontage and Dadaism: A Closer Look at Two Visionaries, Ryan’s Research
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Photomontage and Dadaism: A Closer Look at Two Visionaries
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Museum of Modern Art Presents Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s
September 10, 2008“Richter’s interest in experimental cinema was related to Duchamp’s abstract optical tests with rotary discs and afterimages that in 1926 resulted in Anémic Cinema (also on view at MoMA), a film alternating shots of rotating spirals with discs inscribed with erotic puns”….
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
September 10, 2008"Opening next month is Marcel Duchamp Redux, a special installation commemorating the 45th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s legendary retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum)"….
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The “Creative Act” by Marcel Duchamp
September 10, 2008“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity”…
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Alison Knowles and the Gift on Histories and Theories of Intermedia
September 10, 2008“Richard introduced me to Marcel Duchamp in order to execute the screen print “Coeurs Volants.” The Something Else press needed permission to use the image of the flying hearts on a cover of a book called Sweethearts by Emmett Williams"…
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