Duchamp

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• In fact we might say that at first sight the Institutional Theory is practically required by Duchamp's first unassisted ready-made.
• Mr. Arcangel seems guided by a somewhat callow faith in the avant-garde, striving to perpetuate its tradition, dating from Duchamp, of laying claim to new areas of nonart for art's sake. NYT > Home Page
• It was a seminal collection of work, and he was a forefather to the surrealist movement, as I later found out, and was deeply influential to Marcel Duchamp.
• While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by Gaudí's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life. Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution
• What is clear is that Duchamp's decampment to New York is the single most symbolic act in the transfer of cultural power from old world to new.
• All the collected works from the seven-week event are currently on show alongside masters like Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali.
• The theme was clearly shared by many artists, among them the Futurists, Picabia (Duchamp's boon companion for a time) and the Delaunays.
• In 1917 the French artist Marcel Duchamp created one of the most famous of Dadaist statements in New York.
• Duchamp's brother Raymond was a medical intern in the 1890s at a hospital where Albert Londe pioneered X-ray photography in France.
• Oddly, the pasticheur closest in spirit to Duchamp's double forgery In the Manner of Delvaux was Marcel Proust.