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...society with no settled faith of its own, they often seem driven into intellectual dead ends or fragmented tantrums of defiance, fighting unseen gusts that are perhaps not there. It is hard to be different among crowds of other people trying to be different. In the Dada decade, Marcel Duchamp could shock people by exhibiting a urinal turned upside down and calling it Fountain. Seeing it for the first time today, hardly anvone would flinch-although a few might try to flush...
...cavalry doctor with the 11th Cuirassiers during World War I, Raymond Duchamp-Villon knew equine anatomy well. As a sculptor, and one of the triumvirate of brothers that included Painter Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp, a founder of Dada, he was familiar with the idea that the horse gave aristocratic stature to its rider and had long been the very symbol of man in power. With the beginning of World War I, Duchamp-Villon foresaw that the power of the horse would metamorphose into machine power. The result was his Large Horse...
Commuting back and forth between his army camp and his studio in a Paris suburb, Duchamp-Villon modeled his first equestrian studies with horse and rider. Then as he continued working, he merged the two, smoothed down the surfaces to the metallic glisten of machinery. Only the vaguest form of a hoof in the cubistic sculpture resembles a steed thundering down the stretch. Fetlocks and hindquarters dissolved into the hard shape of cams, pistons and gears. Through the years, Duchamp-Villon's Horse has been known only in terms of the final small-scale model. Even as such...
...thanks to Marcel Duchamp, the surviving brother, the work has finally been cast in full scale-some 1,155 lbs. of bronze bulking 5 ft. tall-and is currently on view in Paris' Galerie Louis Carré. The gallery has wisely fulfilled the sculpture's kinetic dynamism by exhibiting it on a motor-driven turntable. This would no doubt have pleased Duchamp-Villon. "The power of the machine imposes itself on us," he wrote in 1913, "and we can no longer even conceive of humans without it. We are shaken in a strange manner by the rapid friction...
...their beaches. Japanese transistor radios, TVs and tape recorders do as well in New York as James Baldwin's novels in Tokyo or Edward Albee's plays in Athens. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol created a pop art derived from the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp; their work, in turn, has influenced such pop artists in Britain as Joe Tilson and Peter Blake...