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Marcel Duchamp's gift to artists was similar to the Marquis de Sade's gift to sadistsùrelief from moral restraints, accountability, guilt, and shame.
Wayne Andersen will convince you that Marcel Duchamp was not the great artist so many in the academic and museum world made him into. Rather, he was a great con artist who spread his charm and wit over the New York art scene when Dada was flagrantly pervasive in Paris and a parallel bohemianism defined the culture of Greenwich Village. He was clever in his evasive insecurity and so exaggerated that his silly witticisms are published still today as serious. His "Oh, douche it again!" (do shit again!), "L.H.O.O.Q." (she has a hot ass), and "Daily lady would like to dally with daily mail" are cited as creations of a literary genius.
Duchamp was like an alien element that fragmented modern art with the impact of a meteor, comparable, but hardly in size, to the one that destroyed dinosaurs and made it possible for thousands of little multi-cultured species to emerge from their holes and crevices and grow in daylightùwhich, in a comparative reductive way, is what the impact of Duchamp did. The birth of post-modernism (some people say) spelled the end of modernism, the end of historical progress, just as that meteor's impact meant the end of evolution.
Wayne Andersen will convince you that Marcel Duchamp was not the great artist so many in the academic and museum world made him into. Rather, he was a great con artist who spread his charm and wit over the New York art scene when Dada was flagrantly pervasive in Paris and a parallel bohemianism defined the culture of Greenwich Village. He was clever in his evasive insecurity and so exaggerated that his silly witticisms are published still today as serious. His "Oh, douche it again!" (do shit again!), "L.H.O.O.Q." (she has a hot ass), and "Daily lady would like to dally with daily mail" are cited as creations of a literary genius.
Duchamp was like an alien element that fragmented modern art with the impact of a meteor, comparable, but hardly in size, to the one that destroyed dinosaurs and made it possible for thousands of little multi-cultured species to emerge from their holes and crevices and grow in daylightùwhich, in a comparative reductive way, is what the impact of Duchamp did. The birth of post-modernism (some people say) spelled the end of modernism, the end of historical progress, just as that meteor's impact meant the end of evolution.
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Wayne Andersen is professor of history, theory, and criticism of art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has published twelve books on contemporary art and has a PhD from Columbia University. He is a popular lecturer and prolific writer.
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- PublisherFabriart Editions Ltd
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0972557342
- ISBN 13 9780972557344
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages355
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