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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Marcel Duchamp"”.
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The symbolism and self-imaging of Marcel Duchamp
"Revered as ""the father of modern art,"" Marcel Duchamp's idea inspired many new art forms after the 1960s including Neo-Dada, Op, Pop, Mobile Sculpture, Junk Art, Assemblage, Body Art, Happening, and Conceptual Art. Given his profound influence on contemporary and subsequent artists, Duchamp's …
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Conscripting the 'Jura-Paris Road': Military Themes in the Work of Marcel Duchamp
The research claims that Marcel Duchamp was significantly affected by military structures in France between 1905-1915 and mat this relationship between the artist and me military establishment becomes evident as a theme in his work of the period. This military theme resurfaces periodically as an …
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A Joycean Exegesis of "The Large Glass": Homeric Traces in the Postmodernism of Marcel Duchamp
This thesis examines Marcel Duchamp’s "The Large Glass" in relation to Homer’s "Odyssey" and by extension to James Joyce’s "Ulysses." It focuses on the idea that Duchamp may have had in mind Penelope and her Suitors when he was creating the Bride and her Bachelors. The aim of the thesis is …
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The Legacies of Marcel Duchamp and Vladimir Tatlin in Dan Flavin's Fluorescent Light Installations of the 1960s
… York art scenes in which young artists revisited Duchamp's conceptualist practice and Tatlin's materialist dictum during this period, particularly focusing on how the cultural knowledge about them was mediated to Flavin. Along with the larger socio-cultural context, I also address Flavin's …
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Beyond Perspective: A Spectacular History of the Three-Dimensional Image through the Stereoscope, the View-Master, and Marcel Duchamp
… to far-off places. The final chapter examines Marcel Duchamp’s artistic practice and enigmatic final work, <em>Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau 2° le gaz d'éclairage</em> (1946–1966), a three-dimensional installation widely understood to play with the optics of the stereoscope. This chapter …
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Marcel Duchamp precursore della curatela indipendente? Elementi per un'influenza duchampiana nella concezione dello spazio espositivo in Gene R. Swenson e Brian O'Doherty
… tesi sono le cinque mostre surrealiste a cui Marcel Duchamp ha collaborato, tra il 1938 e il 1961, in veste di organizzatore e allestitore. Si procede a riepilogare e analizzare i diversi punti di vista in cui questa collaborazione è stata descritta in ambito storico-artistico, con …
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Loners : working from a pattern
… re-purposing and pattern breaking. w/ work from Marcel Duchamp, Edward Keinholz, Rene Magritte, Joseph Beuys, Eugene Atget, Arthur Fellig (Weegee), David Hoffos, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Mike Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Madonna, Weird Al.
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The Perfect, Singular Moment, When Reality Looks Back at You to Show, Exactly, What She Has Been Hiding All This Time: Nothing
… concept of the readymade (as first introduced by Marcel Duchamp). The focus on materiality separates this research from more traditional time-based art practices such as video, sound, or performance, as I seek to investigate the temporal properties of a sculptural experience. The complexities …
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Pilgrim Carnival
… art. Beginning with Luigi Russolo and Marcel Duchamp, aspects of autobiography are examined in both noise music and the concept of the ready-made artwork. Body Art of the 1970s, particularly the work of Marina Abramovic, is also tied into the idea of the ready-made artwork as an …
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Standing on the corner : aspects of contemporary Canadian sculpture
… sculpture. The invention of the "ready-made" by Marcel Duchamp is acknowledged as the model for the appropriation of so-called "everyday" objects but is expanded to include the relationship of sculpture to objects produced in industrial mass production, as well as the notion of work in a …
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Unwinding Duchamp: Mots et Paroles a Tous les Etages
… reconstitutes was characterised by its executor, Duchamp, not as irony, ironie, but ironisme, the deployment of irony in debate. Socratic irony is defined as feigning ignorance in order to confute an enemy in debate. Irony is saying the opposite of what you mean. Duchamp's practice of the practise …
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Ross Caudill MFA Sculpture 2006
… for this body of work have been: Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Constantine Brancusi, Alberto Giacommetti, Reg Butler, Henry Moore, Lynn Chadwick, Kenneth Armitage, Jeff Koons, Terry Winters, William DeKooning, Richard Diebenkorn, David Smith and Charles Long. I retain a strongrelationship with …
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Yasumasa Morimura: Appropriator of Images, Cultures, and Identities
… case study examines Morimura’s Doublenage (Marcel), a photograph recreating Man Ray’s photograph Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy, focuses on issues such as gender theory and queer theory. The third case study investigates Morimura’s interest in the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, exploring the …
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Spatial Operations: Peter Sloterdijk and Contemporary Military Atmospheres
… including Char Davies, Trevor Paglen and Marcel Duchamp. This is presented through close interdisciplinary analysis of two examples of contemporary ‘atmospheric’ military practices: unmanned drones and military mythology. It demonstrates through two major creative works that both military …
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Curatorship and Post-Duchampian Art in Transnational Contexts
This research examines the role of the artist Marcel Duchamp as a curator, his legacy in the field of curatorship and how the curatorial procedures engendered by him can be transposed to contemporaneity. It presents the dynamics of Post-Duchampian art as those artistic manifestations that make …
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Noodle, Noodle, Cat: Extra-Subjective Agency in Web-based Art practice
… application programming interface to remake a Marcel Duchamp painting for the web. 'Selfie Portrait' displays Instagram photographs tagged with ‘Selfie’ alongside users’ biographical information, which drives the ‘Copyright Episode’, an extended account of the legal contexts surrounding …
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Reiterative drawing as translation : Making, resistance, and the negotiated encounter.
… encompassing the work of artists as diverse as Marcel Duchamp, Elaine Sturtevant, Kate Davis, and Yann Serandour. Prevailing discourses on such works often focus on replication and appropriation as the source of their critique while overlooking what might be understood by exploring their making. …
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Duchamp Meets Turing: Art, Modernism, Posthuman
… advent of the posthuman, tracing its origin to Marcel Duchamp and his invention of the readymade, and not with postmodernism, the theoretical consistency of which, at least in the artistic field, this research will question. A first aim of this work will be to unify the main concepts and …
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Resonant Space, Sonorous Time: The Varieties of Acoustic Phenomena in the Art of Christian Marclay
… photography and video. Influenced by the work of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Fluxus, Vito Acconci and the various underground scenes of New York’s musical landscape including punk, No-Wave and the collaborative jazz of John Zorn, since the late 1970s, Marclay’s artistic practice has explored the …
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Polyphibianism: Evolving Transdisciplinarity into an Imaginary Organism of Living Knowledge
… aptitude of Henri Poincaré, Henri Bergson and Marcel Duchamp to scout at the periphery of physics, metaphysics and ‘pataphysics, to intuitively anticipate the role of chance, chaos and complexity in both arts and sciences. A threshold of complexity has to be surpassed in order to bring the …
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