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The Museum of Good Ideas
Duchamp’s “underground” career — decades ostensibly away from the art world in pursuit of chess — is a touchstone for youthful artist Mark Bloch, who has taken the gameboard out of the underground and...
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Wayne Andersen, Marcel Duchamp: The Failed Messiah
Wayne Andersen, Marcel Duchamp: The Failed Messiah (Geneva: Éditions Fabriart, 2010) This book is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who believes that Marcel Duchamp was an important and...
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Opposition and Sister Squares: Marcel Duchamp and Samuel Beckett.
Opposition and Sister Squares: Marcel Duchamp and Samuel Beckett. Andrew Hugill Bath Spa University, UK. Abstract This article explores the personal and artistic relationship between Marcel Duchamp and...
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An exit Marcel Duchamp and Jules Laforgue
An exit Marcel Duchamp and Jules Laforgue Pieter de Nijs Introduction In 1887, the then famous actor Coquelin Cadet published an illustrated book called Le Rire. The illustrations were made by Eugène...
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Why Teeny’s Hair?
I don’t remember quite when I stumbled upon the chord sequence that constitutes the structure of this song, but it was long before I found an appropriate theme to write the lyrics around. There is an...
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Five Small Things about L.H.O.O.Q.
1 click to enlarge Figure 1 Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q. Attempting to recall exactly when in 1919 the L.H.O.O.Q. had been made, Marcel Duchamp himself offered two different dates: in conversations with...
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On “The Creative Act”
On “The Creative Act” Julian Jason Haladyn With art … the finitude of the sensible material becomes a support for the production of affects and precepts which tend to become more and more eccentred...
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Duchamp with Lacan through Žižek
Duchamp’s Legacy As we approach both the fiftieth anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s death and the centenary of his most famous “readymade” it would appear that not a lot more can be said about the man...
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Photographic Masquerades: The Readymade Femininity of Greta Garbo and Marcel...
Always the vamp I am, always the woman of no heart. – Greta Garbo 1 Nowadays, this may be all very well – names change with the times – but Rrose was an awful name in 1920. – Marcel Duchamp 2 Click to...
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What if Heidegger used Fountain instead of van Gogh’s Shoes to launch the...
Heidegger’s reimagining of the artwork was instrumental in forcing a re-evaluation of modern aesthetic assumptions in the first half of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s theory of the origin of the...
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