marcel duchamp and the disappearing art object
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A PowerPoint about Marcel Duchamp and the development of Art from something to nothing.TRANSCRIPT
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Marcel Duchamp and the disappearing Art Object.
The development of Art from something to nothing.
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“All art is completely useless.”
From “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, (1890), Oscar Wide (1854 – 1900).
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“I’m useless and I’m also an illusion.”
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“I’m getting out of here.”
Sometimes known as “trompe l’oeil”.
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“But we made $250,000,000!”
At auction by Christies in 2013
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“Anything the artist spits is art!”
Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968) artist and spitter.
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“Once I was useful, but no longer!”
“The Fountain” signed “R. Mutt 1917” but really by Marcel Duchamp.
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“We take away each other’s function!”
“Bicycle Wheel” also by Duchamp.
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“Even if nobody knows what it was any more.”
Duchamp’s “Bottle Rack” 1913.
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I’m not bricks, I’m “Equivalent No. 8”.
Carl Andre’s Minimalist sculpture (1966).
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“No, you’re just a load of bricks!”
The British press reacts to the purchase of Carl Andre’s sculpture for the nation.
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“This is just embarrassing!”
Tracey Emin exhibited this tent including the names of all the people she had slept with. (1995)
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“Who left me like this?!”
Tracey’s Bed (1999).
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“I’ll be going away soon.”
Willow Sculpture by Andy Goldsworthy.
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“Me too.”
Unknown pavement artist.
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“And me.”
Sand sculpture on the beach at Puri, India.
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“It was just an idea …
Christo’s “Running Fence, Project For Sonoma and Marin Counties, California”, 1972 – 76.
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“that went on and on and ..
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… cannot be bought or sold.”
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“Ideas can be true although men die..
Jason deCaires Taylor, Grenada, Caribbean.
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.. and we can watch a thousand faces made active ..”
From “Here War Is Simple”, W.H. Auden, 1939.