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...long ago began incorporating materials from the real world (labels, newspaper clippings, playing cards) into their stuck-together collages. The surrealists later cottoned to the idea, as Max Ernst put it, of "coupling two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them." Dadaist Marcel Duchamp hung up mass-produced snow shovels and labeled them ready-made...
...dinner before the museum opening, Director of Collections Alfred Barr tapped his wine glass for attention, rose to reminisce: "I think I first heard the name of Bob Motherwell back in the 1940's from the surrealists, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Breton. And to hear them describe him, he was then like some young Lochinvar come out of the west." Last week Robert Motherwell went back in triumph to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to receive its greatest accolade: a one-man show, with 87 canvases, collages and drawings, including two outsize abstract canvases never...
Organized by a bearded Franco-American collagist, Jean-Jacques Lebel, 28, the festival drew the violent participation of some 60 Montparnasse artists and their friends. Among the 2,000 onlookers were many of the old surrealists, Dadaists and other proponents of artistic anarchy, (as well as Painter Marcel Duchamp and Philosopher Jean Wahl, who introduced Heidegger to Sartre). To them, the whole show must have seemed a remembrance of flings past...
...Duchamp Exhibit...
...Your article on Marcel Duchamp [Feb. 5] was wonderful, but you were wrongly informed that this exhibition is going to the Contemporary Arts Museum in Texas. It will actually appear in the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston...