Well, was it?
Marcel Duchamp : was this the defining work of the 20th Century?
John Gallaher : Only yes or no answers are allowed.
posted by John Gallaher @ 6:36 AM
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14 Comments:
no
No
nope
I'll go with YES to play Devil's Advocate. I could defend that claim (although it would be a debate-team kind of thing).
And here I was going to go with "yes." I'm thinking of what image would go on the cover of an anthology of the century . . .
Just in case anyone ever asks me.
Especially as "Kilge" is my word verification for this . . .
Maybe. "Guernica" and one of Andy Warhol's Marylin Monroe's. With this inbetween?
Don, what a nice arc. Maybe though, something from Warhol's Car Crash series.
I'd put something by Gerhard Richter at the end of the sequence.
Demoiselles (although I am a Cezanne man myself)
Urinal
Pollock of your choice
Warhol of your choice
Richter (my choice: October 18, 1977)
Urinal? What's that? This Duchamp is a sculpture of a fountain.
Urinal? That's just gross.
heh-heh
Could not remember the fountain's name! I almost wrote LHOOQ, but that's a different Duchamp. :-)
Richter is another of my favorites, it's the arc in his work that interestes me . . . he's something of a one-stop 20th Century right there, isn't he?
yes
Was it only the "urinal" amongst
Duchamp's readymades that defined
the century. What about the mustache on the "Mona Lisa"? Yes,
so very much follo,ws these gestures, but it really IS too reductive to narrow it down to
the one object. Is it simply because it's so audacious? Otherwise, what about "The Wasteland"?
DDL,
Well, I was thinking visual art, and of course no one thing needs to be the touchstone . . . but he asked, you know?
I thought it only fitting, now that he's asleep and all, to help him out.
wink wink
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