Contemporary art always brings out visceral feelings about the definition of art — to some people, a wheel sitting on a stool could never be considered art. As a foil to this belief, Marcel Duchamp ...

AKA Marcel Duchamp: meditations on the identities of an artist: an introduction / Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus -- 1. Masking Marcel: Brittle Painted Masks: Portraiture in the Age of ...

In November, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million. For some, Comedian, as Maurizio Cattelan’s creation was known, was a clever work of genius. David Galperin, head of contemporary art ...

In his 1995 book The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp, historian Jerrold E. Seigel wrote that, for the French sculptor and painter, “the absence of habit was an important condition of freedom.” Indeed ...

WASHINGTON - Over several decades in the middle of the past century, scholars, critics and knowledgeable art lovers realized that the wellsprings of modern art did not all flow from Picasso. Equal in ...

Introduction. Drawing on art and artists -- 1. Critiques of the ocular : Duchamp and Paris Dada -- 2. The spectacle of film : Duchamp and Dada experiments -- 3. Endgame strategies : art, chess, and ...

A hundred years ago, in 1925, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) had long returned from New York back to Paris. His Readymade phase was pretty much over, just as he had abandoned painting for more than half a ...