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The new exhibition at London's Tate Modern features three heavy hitters, the Frenchmen Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, and the American Man Ray. They are associated with the Dada and Surrealism movements, but they were friends before these existed, and after they ended. Of the three, Duchamp is the...
Yet what is enjoyable about this exhibition, which runs until May 26, is not how familiar its tone is, but how oddly and refreshingly different. What you see is creativity that is endlessly inventive and outrageous, but at the same time charmingly tentative; irony that is fresh rather than institutionalized...
They were geniuses of not caring. When Duchamp died in 1968 it was discovered that he'd been secretly working for two decades on a complicated installation with sparkling light, an invisible motor and a nude woman made of plaster casts of body parts covered in calfskin. (She was modeled...
They did it to annoy, of course, but for them subversion was something new. It was about their own personalities, what they felt was right about the burgeoning, professionalized art world that they encountered in the 1910s, and what was uncomfortable about it. Although outrageously ambitious intellectually, they were rather...
Her death did, however, untether Ballard's writing from the outer space of conventional science fiction. Instead, he began to explore the "inner space" of everyday culture that was being shaped by consumerism, T.V., sex and celebrity - most of it American. The psychotic hero of his provocative, experimental novel The...