Speaking of Art: Four Decades of Art in Conversation

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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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Topic

Artist and audience Nature of art Art

Speaker

Marcel Duchamp

Source

Speaking of Art: Four Decades of Art in Conversation

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Interview

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Time

20th century

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