Marcel Duchamp
Liverpool Biennial announces artists (2010) (press release)
→ café libraryADP staff - 15 May 10
...Marcel Duchamp had been satisfied with art as immaterial concept, he wouldn’t have spent the last two decades of his life creating his installation Etant Donnés (Philadephia Museum of Art). As he commented two years before his death: ‘A work of art is dependent on the explosion made by the...
Sydney Biennale 1988: From the Southern Cross (1988)
→ café libraryADP staff - 10 Dec 03
...Marcel Duchamp Lili Dujourie Lesley Dumbrell Richard Dunn Brian Eno Luciano Fabro Ian Fairweather Helmut Federle Bill Fontana Katharina Fritsch Gérard Garouste Rosalie Gascoigne Isa Genzken Godbold & Wood Franz Graf Peter Halley Eitetsu Hayashi Joy Hester Roger Hilton...
David Bowie in Art and Celebrity (2003)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker - 28 Feb 03
David Bowie in Art and Celebrity (2003) Excerpt from John A. Walker’s now classic book. David Bowie’s creative accomplishments, like those of Dennis Hopper, are hard to encapsulate because they are so diverse and extend across so many realms: song writing, composing, performing and producing...
Tracey Emin: Eine Künstlerin in— und zwischen— den Schlagzeilen (2001)
→ Creative Business / EntrepreneurshipR.J. Preece (ADP) - 01 Dec 01
Tracey Emin: Eine Künstlerin in— und zwischen— den Schlagzeilen (2001) EN | DE Tracey Emin. Alle, mit denen Ich je geschlafen habe 1963-1995, (1995). Zelt mit Applikationen, Matratze und Licht, 122 x 245 x 215 cm. Ich erinnere mich daran, als wäre es gestern gewesen: Ich war eben von...
Tracey Emin: Artist over— and in— the broadsheets (2001)
→ Creative Business / EntrepreneurshipR.J. Preece (ADP) - 01 Dec 01
Tracey Emin: Artist over— and in— the broadsheets (2001) “... the tent and the artist offer great copy generated by the artwork’s contained textual focal points— the artwork’s title, facilitation of a media-genic headline, the description the artwork generates, her brilliant Tracey quotes, and the...
Stimuli at Witte de With, Rotterdam (1999-2000)
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Sep 00
...Marcel Duchamp, Justin van Duurling, Peter Fillingham, Runa Islam, Ann Veronica Janssens, Rob Johannesma, Piero Manzoni, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Lou Reed, Nasrin Tabatabai, Fiona Tan, Koen Timmermans, Ulay, and Elina Montesinos. Overall, the works provided crisscrossing discourses...
Is sculpture dead? Or is sculpture just really, really tired? (2000)
→ café libraryGlenn Harper - 01 Aug 00
...Marcel Duchamp— he is usually standing in for the idea that anything can be art. But the movement that is referred to most often by far by writers and artists in our pages is without any doubt Minimalist. On the one hand, Minimalism is the most sculptural of styles: Donald Judd’s boxes or Carl...
Monitor BBC TV programme - 1958-1965 (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 May 93
...Marcel Duchamp, it turned out Wheldon had never heard of him and was incredulous when he was told Duchamp’s oeuvre included readymades such as bicycle wheels and urinals. Nevertheless, a programme about Duchamp was made (broadcast on June 17, 1962) in which the artist was interviewed by another...
Technological Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 18 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp to the enthusiasm of the futurists. Kinetic art underwent a boom in the ’60s and this form of art made use of mechanical and electrical engineering but it hardly tapped the potential of modem technology. It was only in the middle 1960s that there was a significant impetus amongst...
Random Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 16 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp’s Standard stoppages, Hans Arp’s collages made from pieces of paper allowed to fall to the ground, Jackson Pollock’s drip painting technique. During the 1960s, chance procedures became more formalized. Science-orientated artists employed statistical techniques derived from...
Participatory Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp at a discussion session on the creative act held in Houston, Texas, in 1957— and to this extent all art is participatory. However, there are degrees of participation: a viewer contemplating a painting is not so actively involved as someone target-shooting at a funfair. From the...
Op Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 14 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, the futurists and the Bauhaus basic course exercises. The founding father of Op Art was surely Victor Vasarély who was painting such images as early as 1935. Since Op Art required “visual research”, it appealed to those European artists interested in light, movement...
Meta-Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 12 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp’s readymades were in part a challenge to existing concepts of art; the works produced by some of the conceptual artists (e.g. Joseph Kosuth, lan Burn, and Mel Ramsden) of the late ’60s were also propositions about the nature of art intended to act as both reflections about the...
Machine Aesthetic / Machine Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 12 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp. Computer art and video art are two kinds of art that are heavily dependent on machines and kineticists are one group of artists who construct works of art which function mechanically. Since Philip Johnson’s Machine Art show at MoMA in 1934, a number of exhibitions have been...
Kinetic Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 10 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp, the French dadaist, invented some rotating reliefs and demi-spheres. However, before 1945 Alexander Calder’s “mobiles” were perhaps the best-known and most popular form of Kinetic Art. According to Frank Popper, various kinds of movement can be identified within Kineticism: (1)...
Game Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 07 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp was an artist whose oeuvre included many playful, game-like activities; legend also had it that he gave up art for chess. See also Cybernetic Art, Participatory Art. References and further reading > John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern. Theory of games and economic...
Funk Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 06 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades, the architecture of Antonio Gaudi and in the pop objects of Claes Oldenburg. See also Kitsch, Pop Art. References and further readings > Harold Paris. “Sweet land of Funk”, Art in America, 55, March 1967, pp. 94-8. > James Monte. “‘Making it’ with Funk”, Artforum,...
Eco Art / Ecological Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 05 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp and Yves Klein, i.e. those employing the weather as a means of creation. This kind of art made use of natural forces and chemical or biological, cyclical processes. It involved such disparate elements as fire, the wind, water, crystals, worms, locusts, bees, snails, fungus and...
Deconstruction (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 04 Jun 92
Deconstruction (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Deconstruction Deconstruction is a philosophical and literary term associated with the post-structuralist writings of the French scholars Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard and...
Conceptual Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Marcel Duchamp (his writings and readymades), Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Jasper Johns, all of whom raised questions about the ontological status of the art object. Conceptual Art was in part a critique of earlier forms of art and the art market, in part an enquiry into the nature of art, and...
