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A Friend Fondly Remembered – Enrico Donati on Marcel Duchamp
click to enlarge Marcel Duchamp and Enrico Donati (from left to right) at Yves Tanguy's house in Woodbury, CT, 1945 (Enrico Donati was a close friend of Marcel Duchamp's, as well as a fellow surrealist painter. I called Enrico Donati with the hopes that he could give me a glimpse of who Marcel Duchamp was as both a friend and an artist. After a
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From Blues to Haikus: An interview with Charles Henri Ford
click to enlarge Charles Henri Ford in his New York apartment, age 87 (2 May 2000) In addition to writing surrealist literature, being a photographer and creating art objects, Charles Henri Ford (b. 1913 in Mississippi) edited such avant-garde magazines as Blues and View. As Alan Jones wrote in Arts Magazine, "Ford opened the pages of his ‘ne
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“Two Minds on a Single Wavelength:” Timothy Phillips on Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp
click to enlargeSalvador Dalí with TimothyPhillips (left), early 1960's We first learned of Timothy Phillips (b. 1929) when he wrote a letter to the editor of Canada's National Post in response to Sarah Boxer's article "A Self-Made Man. The Art World is Upset by Evidence that Marcel Duchamp Manufactured the Readymades he Claimed to have Found" (1
