Word: duchamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shahn), but the drawing is never more than efficient. Partly for this reason his freehand "studies" of soup cans or dollar bills never acquire the pressure of the silk-screened ones, but it is hard to see how they could: those coarsely nuanced rows of ready-mades, in taking Duchamp a small step further, remain the most eloquent comments on the standardization of mass taste in American art. On desire, Warhol could be dreadfully accurate. His idea of silk-screening Marilyn Monroe's disembodied smile 168 times over derived, no doubt, from Man Ray's painting of Kiki de Montparnasse...
...powers, in the 1880s and '90s. Their bodies are radiant, worked almost to a thick crust of pastel matte and blooming with myriad strokes within their tough winding contours. But they are also mechanisms of flesh and bone, all joints, protuberances, hollows, neither "personalities" nor pinups. (One sees why Duchamp, inventor of the mechanical bride, adored and copied Degas...
...open, he could still make art from them. Seen from our distance, that of a pornocratic culture drenched in genital imagery, the skill with which he did this might seem almost quaint. But in Demuth's day, the public atmosphere was, of course, very different, and he, like Marcel Duchamp and other artists in the avant- garde circle that formed around the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg, took a special delight in sowing his work with sexual hints. The handlebar of a vaudeville trick rider's bicycle turns into a penis aimed at his crotch; sailors dance with girls...
...papier-mache rock, looks like Plato's cave built from a prefab kit) and a healthy dose of esthetic restiveness. "I try to be creative and earn money at it," she says. "But it's like being a painter and having a gun pointed at you. I envy Marcel Duchamp for just stopping. Though he had a rich wife." Hamnett's Buddhism keeps her on course ("I'm not into chanting, though I will occasionally when I want a parking space, which is naughty"), and her own vitality keeps her on the move. "Been there, seen that, done that...
...work on view ranges from Symbolists like Paul Serusier to gifted postmodernists like Bruno Ceccobelli; from mannered Rosicrucians and a little- known visionary named Hilma af Klint to Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jasper Johns. Nor does it leave out that durable old alchemist, Marcel Duchamp. It also features several vitrines of early mystical, cosmological and alchemical texts known to have been studied by modern artists, some of whose illustrations are of astonishing beauty and suggestiveness. But its main focus, inevitably, is on the inventors of abstract art: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Kupka, Kazimir Malevich -- all represented by remarkable works...