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There are debts to Max Ernst in the early collages of the '30s, and more subtle references-as in a dialogue between equals-to Marcel Duchamp in the boxes; sometimes Cornell would crack the glass panes that protected his images, in homage to the cracks in Duchamp's Large Glass. But the effect was much more violent, since-in a piece like Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1943-it suggested the rupture of a sanctuary, an attack upon Eden. The glass pane of Cornell's boxes, the "fourth wall" of his miniature theater, is also...
...done to it, but the owner sued and was given $94,000 damages by a German court, a verdict happily greeted by Beuys as a victory over the "exploitative self-interest" of the beer drinkers. Plainly, something had happened to the avant-garde in the half-century since Marcel Duchamp suggested using a Rembrandt as an ironing board. Had it died of its own pomposity? If not, where was Beuys' claim to be an avant-gardist left? The problem is simple: there is no avant-garde any more, since its old ambitions of provocation and social attack have been...
...sseldorf Academy. This, however, is less social sculpture than social packaging. Beuys is a master of the art of self-representation, the last man to become a real celebrity (as distinct from a mere famous artist) through the medium of the art world. He is the Duchamp of the engages, a position he laid formal claim to in 1964 by exhibiting a placard on West German television which read, "The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overrated." As such, he is famous for being famous, for being rather than doing. It is quite unnecessary that his political notions should have...
...dandy, misfit and expatriate, a direct descendant of Patrick Henry and one of the most interesting minor painters of early modernism. In Paris, where he lived for 30 years, Bruce had helped Matisse set up his art school. He was a friend of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, admired by Duchamp and the Steins. As a painter, he had the kind of precise, narcissistic talent-Alfred Stieglitz is said to have compared it to "a cold kiss"-that ensures unpopularity...
...curious thing was that he had so little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...