Marcel Duchamp

[sg]

....is my favourite artist, and "Why Not Sneeze Rose Selavy?" is currently my favourite of all his works.
Does anybody else like Duchamp? I don't meet many people who do.

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid =26546

thanks

sg

[sg]

Thanks Zacs, yes, the surrealist movement grew from what artists like Duchamp were doing in the early C20th.
I love the humour in his work, the double meanings and self parody, but also like to think I can understand some of the intellectual philosophy of it too.
I f you are near London visit the Tate Modewrn, I was there on wednesday and they have a fantastic room which encompasses the growth of surrealism in art, they have a few Dali's too....

[Refusenik1]

I wrote - or, more accurately, tried to write - an essay on Duchamp at university. Arturo Shwarz's (huge) biography of D is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. "The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Batchelors, Even" is a conceptual tour de force, but I'd have to say the work that's always tickled me the most would have to be "Sixteen Miles of String". Perfect...
Cheers


Nick