• by Naumann Francis M.   Posted: 07/10/10

Wayne Andersen, Marcel Duchamp: The Failed Messiah (Geneva: Éditions Fabriart, 2010) This book is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who believes that Marcel Duchamp was an important and influential figure in the history of modern art in the early years of the 20th century. It’s subtitle-The Failed Messiah-tells you pretty much everythi

• Posted: 06/17/10

Duchamp's "underground" career -- decades ostensibly away from the art world in pursuit of chess -- is a touchstone for youthful artist Mark Bloch, who has taken the gameboard out of the underground and bck into the museum gallery in his recent series, Storage Museums. There's an element of travel chess here too, not to mention the Museum in a

• by Randall, Ian   Posted: 12/01/07

Duchamp the Chess "Idiot" Damisch: You remember Duchamp's famous print of two chess players . . . [I was furious] that idiot, Duchamp! He just managed to get $2,000 off me for his Chess Association and in exchange he gave me this horrible etching of chess players. . . . [And he] said that Art no longer had any internal necessity; it was now a pure

• by Naumann, Francis M.   Posted: 12/01/05

  Please click on the still image for animated re-creation of Duchamp's Color-Coded Chess Pieces; Please click to start playing chess game immediately against the computer. The first generation of Duchamp's Color-Coded Chess Game has been created using computer chess program and 3 dimensional chess pieces that appropriate both Duchamp's che

• by Adcock, Craig   Posted: 04/01/03

click to enlargeFigure 1Marcel Duchamp, Three Standard Stoppages, 1913 Marcel Duchamp's readymade, but "not quite," as he called the Three Standard Stoppages(Fig. 1), is a highly ramified work of art.(1)The pieces of string used in its construction are related to sight lines and to vanishing points. In addition to their ostensive references&n

• by Tate Gallery   Posted: 04/01/03

Saturday 24 May 1.00 PM – 6.00 PM Marcel Duchamp began to make The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (or the Large Glass) in New York in September 1915 and continued to work on it at intervals until he set out for a trip to Europe in February 1923, when he pronounced it definitively unfinished. In 1926 it was shattered and was eventu

• by Sammlung Hummel, Wien   Posted: 04/01/03

8.5.>  Eröffnung der Ausstellung, 19 Uhr Marcel Duchamp – Druckgraphik Sammlung Hummel, Wien 9. 5. 2003 - 7. 6. 2003 Zur Ausstellung erscheint ein Katalog mit Textbeiträgen von Eva Christina Kraus/ Valentina Sonzogni, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Ernst Strouhal, Martin Zeiller. 10.5.>   Beginn des Symposiums, 10.30 U

• by bonk, ecke   Posted: 04/01/03

Please scroll over text for small centered images. For pop-up enlargements, please click text. All double-page images from the posthumous 1538 Duerer edition: ©2003 Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. All rights reserved. All ima

• by Clair, Jean   Posted: 04/01/03

  "Je crois beaucoup à l'érotisme (...) Cela remplace, si vous voulez, ce que d'autres écoles de littérature appelaient Symbolisme, Romantisme..." Marcel Duchamp Quelques mois avant sa mort, Duchamp élaborait une série de neuf gravures consacrées au thème des Amoureux(Figs. 1, 2) Ces neuf gravures avaient comme caractéristique commune