Art Bites: Who Was Marcel Duchamp's Female Alter-Ego?
Marcel Duchamp had a female alter ego called Rrose Sélavy, who appears in numerous photographs as part of his Dadaist oeuvre.
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Marcel Duchamp had a female alter ego called Rrose Sélavy, who appears in numerous photographs as part of his Dadaist oeuvre.
I THE DOMINANT TREND WITHIN the American avant-garde tradition has been the evolution of the subjective cinema. There is strong evidence of a shift in the late 1950s from the…
Marcel Duchamp, in full Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp, (born July 28, 1887, Blainville, France—died October 2, 1968, Neuilly), French artist who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects. After the sensation caused by Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912), he painted few other pictures. His irreverence for conventional aesthetic standards led him to devise his famous ready-mades and heralded an artistic revolution. Duchamp was friendly with the Dadaists, and in the 1930s he helped to organize Surrealist exhibitions. He became a U.S. citizen in 1955. Although Duc...
Underlying the Surrealist leader’s preoccupation with dreams and the unconscious was a very practical desire to change the world. Who’s to say he didn’t succeed?