Yet their conception is today generally considered one of the most influential ideas of modern art. It epitomises the assault on convention and accepted notions of art for which duchamp became known. In 1917 marcel duchamp created his famous fountain, a urinal that was also readymade work of art. Marcel duchamp, fountain, 19171964, porcelain urinal, paint, san francisco museum of modern art. Click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. Pdf marcel duchamp, concept and context researchgate. Culture art features was marcel duchamps fountain actually created by a longforgotten pioneering feminist. Art fighting its way back to aesthetics revisiting marcel duchamps. After duchamp, as the art historian roger shattuck wrote. Fountain is a readymade sculpture produced by marcel duchamp in 1917. Farewell to art one, a urinal titled fountain, he sent to the first exhibition of the society of independent artists, in 1917. Given that marcel duchamp s readymades mock and repudiate artistic conventions, the claim to aesthetic merit for such works seems contradictory. Pdf who did fountain, and what does it matter anyway. Professor elizabeth cowling, chief curator patrick elliot, and senior curator ann simpson talk about duchamps fountain.
Pdf marcel duchampalfred stieglitz mutt and jeff fake a. Marcel duchamp, 1917, fountain, photograph by alfred stieglitz. Journal of art historiography number 15 december 2016. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. What you need to know about marcel duchamps fountain.
The primary aim of this book is to offer a new reading of marcel duchamps. Anne elisabeth sejten art fighting its way back to aesthetics revisiting marcel duchamp s fountain 5. What more can possibly be said about marcel duchamps fountain. What happened to marcel duchamps fountain, the worlds. Marcel duchampalfred stieglitz mutt and jeff photograph an impossible urinal. This book marks the centenary of marcel duchamps fountain by critically.
It was one of duchamp s first readymades, ordinary objects transformed and elevated by his choice to separate them from their mundane context and present them as art. Duchamp s work, duchamp s thinking, and duchamp s life are so deeply embedded in the practice of art that their influence is often subliminal, and critics tend to confuse matters by crediting othersandy warhol is the current favoritefor changes that duchamp set in motion. Artwork page for fountain, marcel duchamp, 1917, replica 1964 on display at tate modern. Its history of reception converges with the history of its peeling. His readymades had anticipated by a few years the dada. Pdf a work of art used to be an artefact, a physical object, until the artist marcel. But perhaps its grave offence was that it did not require any manual expertise or real making by duchamp, whose sole effort was to buy the urinal from the j. Marcel duchamp s famous readymade entitled fountain. Fountain is the most famous of duchamp s socalled readymade sculptures. Marcel duchamps fountain robert kilroy marcel duchamps fountain one hundred years later robert kilroy universite paris sorbonne abu dhabi, united. The readymades of marcel duchamp are ordinary manufactured. Marcel duchamp a hat rack and coatrack to hang things on, a comb to straighten ones hair, a cover to protect a typewriter from dust, a urinal for peeing in, a rack to dry. The final verdict on fountain has been widely accepted, despite the fact that the.
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