Fantastic and insightful lecture, however Duchamp actually didn't sign the fountain when he first put it forward for The Independents exhibition. Watch his BBC interview.
He said he never wanted to repeat himself in his work but he turned himself into a parody by spending most of his life repeating his own work and making it out to be more and more precious. He claimed he never wanted to be part of the commercial establishment of "art" but he spent his life sort of hanging around the art world and doing odd jobs for artists and consumers of art. Sort of a pet for the artists who were forging ahead. He had some "intellectual" ideas which were in a way "modern" but ever since there has been "art" going back ten thousand years the idea of the spread and exposure of the original has been an inherent topic and an inherent "action" of art, if you will. Warhol claimed that Duchamp was his art hero and we see right around the time of Duchamp's death Warhol begins making mechanical art by reproducing iconic images by silkscreen and rather "owing" the idea of the duplication and proliferation by producing his own dupes which then end up on coffee mugs because, like the urinal, they are objects that are nothing special in themselves and perfect for duplication, permeating mass media as was clear to see by everyone, including Duchamp, was the direction every object was heading towards -- art object or urinal there would be image saturation of recognizable objects we all share the knowledge of in common. To be honest, I find this lecture and the fact that this man has been writing about this and talking about this for his entire adult life sort of depressing in spite of his precious "re-reification" "term of art" which he has used to recirculate and repeat himself. Over and over. Academia can be a real graveyard for aliveness. All this said "Nude Descending a Staircase" is literally the most thrilling work of art I've ever seen -- I get total synesthesia when I look at it, even a reproduction. I hear metal grinding on metal, light glinting off the image like light glints off chrome, feel the movement down the stairs as both the figure almost floating above the stairs and at the same time clanging, gangling and coming apart explosively as it miraculously remains self contained. Weirdly he had not heard of the futurists when he painted it, and I do believe him, and yet he created the greatest work of the Futurist Movement, hung up his cubist brushes and -- honestly -- had I painted that beauty I would have also felt "what more can I possibly say ".
The signature contains another pun: R. Mutt - 'Armut' ('poverty' in German) which contradicts Richard - 'rich art'
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So "the Broken Arm-," then. MD the great hairsplitter.
wow thanks
I love the way it put's it simply without making it banal
Wonderful lecture!!
If it’s the name comes first ie( FOUNTAIN) and then to find an object to go with it at a later date . To complete the idea.
Fantastic and insightful lecture, however Duchamp actually didn't sign the fountain when he first put it forward for The Independents exhibition. Watch his BBC interview.
great lecture
He said he never wanted to repeat himself in his work but he turned himself into a parody by spending most of his life repeating his own work and making it out to be more and more precious. He claimed he never wanted to be part of the commercial establishment of "art" but he spent his life sort of hanging around the art world and doing odd jobs for artists and consumers of art. Sort of a pet for the artists who were forging ahead. He had some "intellectual" ideas which were in a way "modern" but ever since there has been "art" going back ten thousand years the idea of the spread and exposure of the original has been an inherent topic and an inherent "action" of art, if you will.
Warhol claimed that Duchamp was his art hero and we see right around the time of Duchamp's death Warhol begins making mechanical art by reproducing iconic images by silkscreen and rather "owing" the idea of the duplication and proliferation by producing his own dupes which then end up on coffee mugs because, like the urinal, they are objects that are nothing special in themselves and perfect for duplication, permeating mass media as was clear to see by everyone, including Duchamp, was the direction every object was heading towards -- art object or urinal there would be image saturation of recognizable objects we all share the knowledge of in common. To be honest, I find this lecture and the fact that this man has been writing about this and talking about this for his entire adult life sort of depressing in spite of his precious "re-reification" "term of art" which he has used to recirculate and repeat himself. Over and over. Academia can be a real graveyard for aliveness.
All this said "Nude Descending a Staircase" is literally the most thrilling work of art I've ever seen -- I get total synesthesia when I look at it, even a reproduction. I hear metal grinding on metal, light glinting off the image like light glints off chrome, feel the movement down the stairs as both the figure almost floating above the stairs and at the same time clanging, gangling and coming apart explosively as it miraculously remains self contained. Weirdly he had not heard of the futurists when he painted it, and I do believe him, and yet he created the greatest work of the Futurist Movement, hung up his cubist brushes and -- honestly -- had I painted that beauty I would have also felt "what more can I possibly say ".
Nicely said, I agree.
The lecturers got to eat, his trust fund is for pleasure.
These three Readymades-in the box represent a landscape behind the large glass, that cannot be seen although the glass is clear.😂
Total BS about total BS.