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Word: duchampians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paris 1937-1957: An Elegy | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Comedy's Post-Funny School | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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