by engine8design | Duchamp
Written by Brad Bunkers Just prior to moving to Munich in 1912, Marcel Duchamp accompanied Gaby Picabia and Apollinaire to a performance of Raymond Roussel’s play Impressions of Africa in Paris. Roussel, the obscure French author and playwright heavily influenced by...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Written by Brad Bunkers In 1917, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, a factory-made urinal, was rejected as being unoriginal and outlandish. After almost ninety years, Duchamp is still shocking the globe—from the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition in...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Written by Brad Bunkers Pubic hairs imbedded in soap bars, revolting inhumane acts caught on film, garish reproductions of Michael Jackson and puppies. Contemporary artists working within the realm of shock are often linked back to Marcel Duchamp. On the surface,...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Text from Janis Mink, “Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968: Art as Anti-Art” The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-192 “The Large Glass has been called a love machine, but it is actually a machine of suffering. Its upper and...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Text from Matei Calinescu, “Five Faces of Modernity” 1987 Duke University Press “If we think of kitsch as a ‘style’ of bad taste, we arrive at another paradox, much deeper and more puzzling that the one just pointed out, namely the earlier mentioned possibility of...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Excerpted from an interview with French art critic Pierre Cabanne, circa 1967 “The movies especially amused me because of their optical side. Instead of making a machine which would turn, as I had done in New York, I said to myself, ‘Why not turn the...
