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...Dadas is in the backgrounds of their members. The Dadas were artists dissatisfied with the art form over which they had achieved a reasonable degree of mastery. They were, in a sense, trying to unravel the fabric of society from the inside. The most famous Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, said "Dada was the extreme protest against the physical side of painting, a metaphysical attitude, a blank force." In the late teens, Duchamp became an accomplished chess player and decided to give up painting because it "bored" him. Thus, the Dadas were not street corner vandals: intellectually, they were seeking to turn...
...works was far above that of the man in the street: it often required knowledge of two languages to understand their puns. The punks require no such education. Anyone who is willing to endure the disgusted stares of his parents can be a punk. Through punk, one can experience Duchamp's "blank force" of protest at its basest level. Because punk is a fashion, it will surely fade away eventually. But because almost everyone in the country has at least a vague idea of what punk looks like--if not what it is--punk will not fade as completely...
SITE at first made paper waves. It flooded art and architecture schools with publications expounding the Wines-Sky message and with exhibits showing unbuilt projects, mostly of buildings blending, melting, seemingly dissolving into their surroundings. The word "de-architecture" was often used. Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's name was frequently cited as an inspiration...
...tags of $15,000. If one suggests that this is steep for a new teacup, however dense with sabi and wabi it may be, one is told that such objects are signed on the box by a noted living tea master. This imprimatur, a fabulously profitable extension of Marcel Duchamp's solitary act of declaring a urinal a work of art, gives the bowl its pedigree and value. Thus the tea implements are snapped up by the rich and fashion-tyrannized; and the tea masters make fortunes, what with certifying tea ware by the truckload, writing syndicated columns, running...
...Seiji Tsutsumi, 56. Tsutsumi's intention is "to ignore the limitations inherent in categories of genre from the art world" and "to continually create a place of expression." The Seibu museum and its offshoots in Nagano and Funabashi have mounted shows on subjects as diverse as Marcel Duchamp and Edvard Munch, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Jasper Johns, Paul Klee and Egon Schiele. Today Seibu is the most influential source of direct contact with Western art in Japan, quite apart from the immense influence it has on popular attitudes toward design...