| Warhol's Self-Portrait to sell at Christie's |
By Jenny Fan
posted: 04-27-11
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Before Warhol was Warhol, there was Duchamp. In fact Andy Warhol (1928-1987), the arbiter of Pop Art and cool, was greatly influenced by Duchamp’s ready-made concept and redefinition of art. He was the high priest of engaging “ready-made” objects, perhaps photos, with t
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| Vassar Students Explore the Dizzying Effects of Duchamp's Rotoreliefs |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 04-24-11
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What's part turntable, part optical-art, part children's toy? A Duchamp rotorelief: a colored, spiral-patterned disk the artist designed to create a three-dimensional visual effect when spun (hence the term "relief").
Duchamp designed them in 1935, and tried unsuccessfully to sell them, n
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| Jodorowsky Contends with the Surrealist Ego |
By Maria Goldverg
posted: 04-22-11
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Those who are not yet familiar with Alejandro Jodorowsky's works would do well to check them out. His surreal, and Surreal, films have always artfully, and pleasurably, wreaked havoc upon their viewers' minds. They are always monstrous to behold and can be absolutely devastating to watch a
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| Artist Gets Into the Head of Duchamp, literally |
By Jenny Fan
posted: 04-21-11
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Marcel Duchamp’s gesture of drawing a mustache and a goatee on the Mona Lisa in L. H. O. O. Q. (1919) redefined art and our perception of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. At first glance, or using Duchampian rhetoric, “retinal art,” we see only the sexual
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