Marcel Duchamp

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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

Marcel Duchamp

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Topic

Criticism of America America

Author

Marcel Duchamp

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Duchamp, Marcel. "The Richard Mutt Case." The Blind Man, May 1917.

Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things.

Marcel Duchamp

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Autumn Death Seasons Nature

Speaker

Marcel Duchamp

Source

The Duchamp Dictionary

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

20th century

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Citation

Grist, Thomas. The Duchamp Dictionary. Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 70.

I have a very definite theory-let's call it theory, so that I can be wrong-that a work of art exists only when the spectator has looked at it.

Marcel Duchamp

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Artist and audience Nature of art Art

Speaker

Marcel Duchamp

Source

Speaking of Art: Four Decades of Art in Conversation

Medium

Interview

Language

Unclear

Time

20th century

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Citation

Duchamp, Marcel. Audio Arts. 1974. Originally a recorded interview by George Heard Hamilton, Richard Hamilton, and Charles Mitchell, London, 1959.