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...other tradition" of the twentieth century avant-garde, the irrational alternative to high modernism's fixation on form, structure and dogma. Watts and Kaprow inherited this position from Marcel Duchamp, father of Dada and first to insist that "the viewer completes the work of art." Their process was Duchampian in intent and radical in form: they created art objects from everyday objects and performance pieces from everyday events, decontextualizing those elements and thereby giving the piece a new function within the aesthetic space of the gallery. Often they rejected the confines of the gallery space altogether. Watts's and Kaprow...
...paint, which were exhibited in Paris just after the Liberation (with a catalogue preface by André Malraux) and are still among the most striking images of pathos and mute, intractable survival that the war evoked from the West. The monochromes of Yves Klein, a curiously underrated compound of Duchampian dandy and body artist from the '50s, prefigure much that would happen on the conceptual fringes of the art scene...
...show's cast and crew; a week later he was back-unshaven, disheveled, distraught-to confess that his behavior had put his career in jeopardy with "the show-business community," then sobbed and fell silent. Was he serious? Is he mad? Perhaps he was once again playing the Duchampian agent provocateur of modern comedy: the Dada of haha...
...living artist had to cope with. His Promethean spirit was written into the idea of modernism itself. Not now. The only men of Picasso's generation whose work still exerts pressure on modern painting are Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). To artists nurtured on Duchampian irony, the very idea of the culture-hero, which Picasso embodies, is suspect. The last 15 years have seen a reaction against the cult of expressive personality in art, and Picasso has caught the backlash. He took the virtuoso's role, enlarged it, identified it with himself, and reamed...
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