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The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". [1] By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the found object became art.
Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel is a 1910 painting by Marcel Duchamp. Raymond Dumouchel was a former schoolmate and a student in Radiology, an emerging field at the time (X-rays had been discovered in 1895). Duchamp painted the left hand of Dumouchel surrounded by an aura, suggestive of both the rays he worked with and his healing powers. [1] [2] [3]
An antidote to what Duchamp called "retinal art", In Advance of the Broken Arm was the second of a series of sculptures that he named "ready-mades", the most famous of which is his 1917 Fountain. At the time, the term "ready-made" referred to manufactured goods as opposed to handmade goods, but Duchamp used the term to describe "an ordinary ...
Man Ray, 1920, Three Heads (Joseph Stella and Marcel Duchamp, painting bust portrait of Man Ray above Duchamp), gelatin silver print, 20.7 × 15.7 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York In 1918, Duchamp took leave of the New York art scene, interrupting his work on the Large Glass , and went to Buenos Aires , where he remained for nine months and ...
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Marcel Duchamp, photograph published in Les Peintres Cubistes, 1913 This is an incomplete list of works by the French artist Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968), painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism , conceptual art , and Dada .
Henri-Pierre Roché and Marcel Duchamp, visiting from France, organized the magazine with Beatrice Wood in New York City. Mina Loy also contributed to the first, Independents' Number issue. They published only one more issue, with the following contributors: Walter Arensberg (Axiom, Theorem, poems), Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia (Marie Laurencin ...
In American Art News, there were prizes offered to anyone who could find the nude. [23] After attending the Armory Show and seeing Marcel Duchamp's nude, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote: "Take the picture which for some reason is called 'A Naked Man Going Down Stairs'. There is in my bathroom a really good Navajo rug which, on any proper ...