Word: duchamps
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...case containing 15 shot glasses called Petite Musée. They are all symbols shorn of obvious symbolism, junk treasured to jangle the imagination. The work has roots in the cubism of Braque, where newspaper clippings were glued amid the oils, and branches embracing the Dada of Marcel Duchamp. But Cornell's intent is neither to fracture space nor make satire...
...classic dada art work was an ordinary urinal that Marcel Duchamp put in an exhibition and entitled Fountain. It typified the cynical frustration that grew out of World War I, and the movement satirized all the other artistic isms of the time...
...chronicles the dizzying evolution of kinetic sculpture, the latest fad, from such beginnings as Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's 1913 mobile. SHOW BUSINESS notes how TV brought about the hideously funny reincarnation of Batman, a comic strip still fondly remembered by the middleaged. And MEDICINE seems to confirm again that many old wives' tales contain a granule of fact; the human palm, it now appears, does reveal secrets - but not the kind looked for by devotees of palmistry...
...work is surreal, finicky, and owes much to Dada. Baruchello has even done a portrait, titled Chemical Inducers in Marcel Duchamp's Brain, of that venerable, revamped Dadaist. Painted on three layers of Plexiglas, the portrait is a phrenologist's delight, with arrows depicting the flow of nervous energy and vague images suggesting visual ideas. Like the autobiographical trinkets strewn through Baruchello's work, it is the facsimile of an artist's mind...
...which most certainly would not please Meissonier, a 19th century French academic who painted romances of gladiators and Napoleonic battles. Also from 1965's crop: Salvador Dali in the Act of Painting Gala in the Apotheosis of the Dollar in Which You Can See on the Left Marcel Duchamp Masquerading as Louis XIV Behind a Vermeerian Cur tain Which Actually Is the Invisible Face but Monumental of Hermes by Praxiteles. It covers quite a bit of art history in a style that describes Dali himself-a pastiche...