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...made no sale for six months. "Since I guaranteed the artists that I'd sell 10% of their works, I almost had to start a collection," he says. He took off for Paris, where the artists whose works he had bought-Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp-repaid him by giving him pointers in painting. Today Copley's Surrealist collection ranks as the finest in the U.S., takes up much of his spacious Manhattan apartment, where he lives with his China-born wife,' Chuang-Hua, the author of a 1969 novel called Crossings...
...back in 191 3, an unwary art critic covered himself with retrospective ignominy by mocking Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase as looking more like "an explosion in a shingle factory." There is no such danger today awaiting critics of Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris -even though some of his work does indeed look like an explosion in some sort of factory-because Morris' untitled pieces are not intended to represent anything. "What you see is what there is," says Morris. Since 1962, Morris watchers have seen him exhibit an 8-ft.-square slab of painted...
Levy is this the heir to the avant-garde of Ray, Richter. Duchamp, and Dali, and also the most sophisticated of Eisenstein's psychology and his montage of shack therapy. Indeed Levy's ??? on film are built around similar percept?? ??? (though in his case, with a Phl). in theoretical physics from Cambridge, the science is a good ??? more ??? fide) and his recourse to similar language ("emotional shocks." for instance ??? predominantly in his theory...
...last analysis," wrote Marcel Duchamp, the most cerebral artist of the 20th century, "the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of the spectator in order that his declarations take a social value and that, finally, posterity includes him in the primers of art history." Right now Oldenburg-and some of his fellow Popsters as well-seems assured of a place in the primers...
Critics and connoisseurs will undoubtedly spend years tracing the imagery through earlier works. For the average viewer, the power and the majesty of Duchamp's last work lies suspended somewhere among its multiple metaphors and in the sage, sure wisdom imparted by an aging iconoclast that with every autumn comes the spring...