• by Harvey, Glenn   Posted: 05/01/00

Hello Tout-Fait, What a find! I'm an "anartist" and post-grad art history and theory student at the University of Essex in the UK (Dawn Ades and Margaret Iversen are my tutors). This first issue was tremendous. More please! Apropos of Rhonda and Stephen's article on the "Standard Stoppages," I'm probably not the only Duchampian to notice, also,

• by Anastasi, William   Posted: 05/01/00

William Anastasi responds: I was pleased to learn that Katherine Dreier has been the subject of a doctoral dissertation. If there is evidence showing that the Tomkins and Marquis accounts of her relationship with Duchamp are off base, adjustments would be welcome. Dr. Angeline states that "correspondence between Dreier and Duchamp does reveal that

• by Angeline, John   Posted: 05/01/00

Dear Tout-Fait, Congratulations on an exciting and generally brilliant issue! As a co-editor of an online arts journal (PART, http://web.gsuc.cuny.edu/dsc/part.html) I am impressed with what you have done. One quibble — the Anastasi article about the Large Glass, while intriguing, unfortunately falls into the same wrongheaded cliches about Ka

• by Else, Tobias   Posted: 05/01/00

click to enlarge Figure 1 Sir Roger's Infusion Apparatus, A Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Medical Appliances,Allen & Hanburys Ltd., London, 1938, p. 186 To the Editor: Stimulated by the article "Paris Air" or "Holy Ampule" by Girst and Shearer in the December 1999 issue ofTout-fait, I conducted some research about the history of i

• by Schmitt, James L.   Posted: 05/01/00

Dear Drs. Gould and Shearer, Thank you for your interesting article in the December issue of Natural History. It led me to an alternative interpretation of his boat/deckchair illusion using the notion of a cross-section, which is implicit in the passage from Flatland that you quoted. Imagine three spheres in space. One can obtain a 2-dimensiona

• by McCallum, Bill   Posted: 05/01/00

To the Editor: In their essay on a note by Marcel Duchamp about the fourth dimension (Natural History, 12/99-1/00), Stephen Jay Gould and Rhonda Roland Shearer emphasize the fact that no other previous Duchamp scholar has ever noticed that the text of this particular note relates to the image of three boats in a landscape that appears on its ver

• by Ausubel, Robert   Posted: 05/01/00

Dear Professors, I am only vaguely familiar with the concept of the fourth dimension, and your fascinating essay in the January Natural History will encourage me to investigate it. I believe that you are away of some points that I would like to make and ignored them for brevity's sake, but let's see. One of the overriding proposals of the essay