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...looks and acts as if he could be Robert De Niro's older brother who went into accounting. One brief scene - in which Eva greets her new lover Juan with her arms and a leg sticking out seductively from behind an easy chair, like a Marcel Duchamp construction with moving parts - hints at the vibrant high camp to which Evita Perón might have aspired...
...influenced two generations of journalists. "Time could truly be made to stand still," he recalls in this extraordinary book of prose and picture recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into...
...black-and-white pictures have been chosen to illustrate Daval's brisk chronological text. By dividing his subject into 89 bite-size chapters, he is able to draw fine distinctions among the numerous unruly schools that flourished during those fertile 25 years when such men as Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp, Mird, Dali, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright changed the look and perception of the modern world...
...Dada prescribed no specific aesthetic, but rather an attitude, a shared feeling that traditional art had somehow failed to reach modern man. The Dadaists sought new modes of expression that would make art relevant to life. Taking this idea literally, they introduced everyday objects and materials into art. Duchamp created "readymade" sculptures using old urinals, bicycles and other assorted junk. Kurt Schwitters invented the term "merz" for his art, defined as a "fusion of all conceivable materials for artistic purposes." Collage and photomontage became chief modes of expression...
...unique to Dada, influenced many later artists. Hannah Hoch, Raoul Hausmann and others made striking collages in which they jumbled and juxtaposed photographs from newspapers to create disturbing images of dissembled bodies in confused scales. Robert Rauschenberg's collages of the 1960s owe much to the Dada legacy. Duchamp's adoption of ordinary objects in sculpture is analogous to the selection of unadulterated common building materials in post-modern architecture. Frank Gehry's new house in California uses unfinished two-by-fours, asphalt and chain-link fencing...