Word: duchamps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ghost of an almost forgotten art movement came to life in Manhattan last week. At the urging of a 57th Street gallery owner, 65-year-old Artist Marcel Duchamp* had set up the first major exhibit of Dada ever held in the U.S. The result was a collection of 300 of the most sardonic jokes ever perpetrated...
Eternal Spirit. For last week's show, Old Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution...
Manhattan gallery-goers flocked to the show, and Marcel Duchamp thought they took it quite well. "Dada is not passe," he insisted. "The Dada spirit is eternal. Our art will always exist as a concrete expression of freedom." And he could feel that the visitors "understood immediately." Understanding or not, most people had trouble deciding if it was safe to pick up Duchamp's catalogue for the show. Duchamp had them printed on huge ( 2 ft. by 3 ft.) sheets of tissue, crumpled them into balls and packed them in a wastebasket. People with long memories half expected that...
...Paris last week was an art show with a lofty label-"Masterpieces of the 20th Century"-and a thesis. Among the 114 canvases and twelve sculptures on display were major works by Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp and scores of lesser lights. The thesis: "Such cultural achievements are possible only in a climate of intellectual freedom...
MARCEL, 64, is the most famous of the Duchamp brothers. After a dozen years as modern art's No. 1 bad boy, in 1923 he gave up such experiments as his stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase in favor of chess, has scarcely touched a brush to canvas since. Last week, along with witty reminders of his bumptious youth, he displayed his first artistic creation in 15 years, a tiny pencil drawing of a chessman. Said Marcel, who lives in Manhattan: "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art-and much more. It cannot...