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When Duchamp Agreed to Forge One of His Most Famous Works. “It was the focal point of so much consternation,” Jessica Todd Smith, curator of American art at the PMA, told Artsy.

When Duchamp Agreed to Forge One of His Most Famous Works

“Even though there were so many interesting things going on in that exhibition, that piece was singled out.” The press competed to outdo one another with critical jabs. Duchamp’s painting was unflatteringly dubbed “an explosion in a shingle factory” by the New York Times, and was parodied as The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway) in the New York Evening Sun. And American Art News offered $10 to any reader who could firmly identify the nude allegedly depicted in the painting, publishing a taunting poem: “You’ve tried to find her, / And you’ve looked in vain / Up the picture and down again, / You’ve tried to fashion her of broken bits, / And you’ve worked yourself into seventeen fits.”

Such reviews must have piqued the curiosity of Louise and Walter Arensberg, who were living near Boston during the Armory Show’s New York run. 50 Years Ago Today, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage Played Chess. How Duchamp’s Urinal Changed Art Forever. On April 9th, 1917, just over 100 years ago, Marcel Duchamp achieved what was perhaps the most brilliant and absurd art event of the 20th century.

How Duchamp’s Urinal Changed Art Forever

The story is legend. Duchamp, wanting to submit an artwork to the “unjuried” Society of Independent Artists’ salon in New York—which claimed that they would accept any work of art, so long as the artist paid the application fee—presented an upside-down urinal signed and dated with the appellation “R. Mutt, 1917,” and titled Fountain. The Society’s board, faced with what must have seemed like a practical joke from an anonymous artist, rejected Fountain on the grounds that it was not a true work of art. Duchamp, who was a member of that board himself, resigned in protest. Is it really art? Artists and intellectuals surfaced on both sides of the issue, with perhaps the clearest explanation of Fountain’s importance coming from an anonymous editorial believed to be written by the artist Beatrice Wood. ‘Fountain’, Marcel Duchamp, 1917, replica 1964. Fountain is one of Duchamp’s most famous works and is widely seen as an icon of twentieth-century art.

‘Fountain’, Marcel Duchamp, 1917, replica 1964

The original, which is lost, consisted of a standard urinal, usually presented on its back for exhibition purposes rather than upright, and was signed and dated ‘R. Mutt 1917’. Tate’s work is a 1964 replica and is made from glazed earthenware painted to resemble the original porcelain. The signature is reproduced in black paint. Marcel Duchamp. Projects + Perspectives · SFMOMA. L'œuvre Fontaine. In New York, in 1917, Marcel Duchamp presented a urinal to the hanging committee of the annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists to which he belonged, to put to the test its founding principle, to reject no work.

L'œuvre Fontaine

Displayed on its back, titled Fountain, and signed R. Mutt, it laid claim to being a work of art. The submission divided the committee, which decided not to show it. Photographed by Albert Stieglitz before it vanished, Fountain entered posterity as the herald of the readymade, a radical innovation that inaugurated an art of ideas. The piece in the Museum’s collection... read more In New York, in 1917, Marcel Duchamp presented a urinal to the hanging committee of the annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists to which he belonged, to put to the test its founding principle, to reject no work.

Close. Want To Celebrate A Urinal's 100th Birthday? You'll Need This Secret Password. Secrets of Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Etant donnes’ - WSJ. Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades: Celebrating the Centennial. Archives Dada. Les "Ready-made" de Marcel Duchamp : un jeu avec les représentations mentales. "Il n'y a pas de hasard, il n'y a que des rendez-vous.

Les "Ready-made" de Marcel Duchamp : un jeu avec les représentations mentales

" Paul Eluard. "Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire. " Baudelaire. A la question "Qu'est ce qu'une oeuvre d'art ? " The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp - Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp. 1-2-3 DUCHAMP ! . 1911 – Le 6 février, à Neuilly, Jeanne Serre met au monde une fille dont on suppose que Marcel est le père.

1-2-3 DUCHAMP !

Marcel avait interrompu sa liaison avec elle depuis longtemps. 1911 – Suzanne Duchamp annonce son mariage avec un pharmacien de Rouen. Young Man and Girl in Spring./ Jeune homme et jeune fille au printemps(printemps 1911, Neuilly) AS-220Le cadeau de marriage de Marcel: “A toi ma chère Suzanne” et elle reçoit directement son gland tendu, assze grand. Son érection dans un cœur. C’est la toile la plus violente de Marcel Duchamp. 1911 – Jacques Villon fonde le « Groupe de Puteaux », un groupe de discussion sur le cubisme qui rejette le cubisme radical de Picasso et de Braque. 1911 – Le 23 août, Suzanne Duchamp devient Madame Charles Victor René Demares.

Yvonne and Magdeleine Torn in Tatters / Yvonne et Magdeleine déchiquetées(septembre 1911, Veules-les-Roses) AS-221Nous connaissons le contenu. L’adieu à la peinture de Marcel Duchamp. En attendant de voir l'exposition que le Centre Pompidou consacre au père de l'art conceptuel, voyons comment Duchamp a pris du champ… avec la peinture.

L’adieu à la peinture de Marcel Duchamp

Portrait d'un anartiste, en cinq temps. Il a inventé l'art conceptuel. Bouleversé notre idée du beau. Dossiers pédagogiques - Collections Centre Pompidou - Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades: Celebrating the Centennial. Marcel Duchamp’s letter to Suzanne Duchamp, January 15, 1916.

Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades: Celebrating the Centennial

Jean Crotti papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Read the full translation below In 1913 Marcel Duchamp topped a kitchen stool with a bicycle wheel, “fork down” through a hole he had drilled in the seat, and parked this wheel-on-a-stool in his Paris studio. “I didn’t have any special reason to do it,” he later recalled. "Nu descendant un escalier" Marcel Duchamp (interview, 1963) Marcel Duchamp à propos du "ready-made" Marcel Duchamp, Double Exposure: Full Face and Profile, by Victor Obsatz. Filip Noterdaeme: The Drama of the Gifted Duchamp.

Here is a gem of a show that, although small in scale, yields too many intellectual and aesthetic pleasures to be ignored.

Filip Noterdaeme: The Drama of the Gifted Duchamp

Duchamp champion and scholar Francis M. Naumann has orchestrated a family reunion of sorts where four out of the six Duchamp siblings partake as if in a rendezvous d'outre tombe. N° 296 - du 21 mars 2013 au 27 mars 2013. Artiste en 1914 : les planqués du camouflage «Z'êtes peintre dans l'civil ?

N° 296 - du 21 mars 2013 au 27 mars 2013

Eh ben, allez nous barioler !» C'est sans doute par la saveur élimée de cette blague de caserne que furent enrôlés le sergent Dunoyer de Segonzac, Paul Landowski, André Lhote, Paul Laurens, Joé Hamman... et tant d'autres pastellistes et orientalistes, graveurs ou décorateurs mutés à la «section de camouflage». En 1914, la France enfile pour la guerre son très voyant pantalon rouge - quand les Allemands sont en feldgrau et les Tommies en réséda.