Comments on: Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp

Burhanistan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:22:04 -0800

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp - an animated timeline of the artist's life and works.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:22:10 -0800

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:34:06 -0800

!pots tsum pmahcuD fo nuf gnikam sihT

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:07:29 -0800

This is not a post about Magritte.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:33:45 -0800

I always considered him a bit of a prankster and pure conceptualist until I saw a replica of the Large Glass in person. It's breathtaking.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:36:39 -0800

Oh! And there's an annotated an animated version of it buried in the flash in the FPP link. I wish I could link to it...

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:46:10 -0800

Hey, this is really cool. Nice use of flash, nice interface. Good find, Burhanistan. I'm a huge Duchamp fan.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:05:01 -0800

~stares at the print of Chocolate Grinder hanging on his kitchen wall and smiles~ Count me in the camp of Duchamp fans. Anything that aims to bring his work greater exposure is a-ok with me. There isn't much that happened in art later that didn't owe an enormous debt to Duchamp. Either directly or conceptually. And, yeah, the Large Glass is simply stunning.

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:07:25 -0800

Spoiler alert: the end of the timeline shows the interior of Etant Donnes. Duchamp wanted you to go to Philly and peek through the peephole.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:10:55 -0800

And, yeah, the Large Glass is simply stunning. The work that I find most interesting is: Given: 1) The waterfall 2) The illuminating gas I've only ever seen photographs of it, but one day I'll make my way to Philadelphia and see the real thing.

By: thatwhichfalls

thatwhichfalls — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:23:28 -0800

Bit of a double, but it's worth seeing again on its own.

By: donfactor

donfactor — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:31:38 -0800

I had the great good fortune of getting to meet him and talk with him for a while at a reception following the opening his retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum. Most of the people there were wealthy supporters of the museum who were doing their civic duty but who knew little about art. So I spotted Duchamp standing alone at one point of the evening. I walkd up to him, introduced myself and we started chatting. We ended up sitting together on a sopha discussing cigars. He had a penchant for thos little thin, I think, Brazilian stogies. and I was keen on a similar but different variety. I had heard that he didn't like to talk about art so I didn't raise the subject. But it was a memorable evening for me if not for him. One doesn't often get to hobnob with one of one's folk heroes.

By: donfactor

donfactor — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:50:55 -0800

I forgot to add, many thanks, Burhanistan, for this marvelous find. It is one of the rare websites that I expect to explore and enjoy again many times

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:58:20 -0800

Donfactor, I'm jealous. I wish I could say I'd had a chat with Duchamp over skinny cigars.

By: jrossi4r

jrossi4r — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:46:13 -0800

Etant donnes is my favorite, favorite thing at the art museum. It's an awesome little secret hiding in a corner. I must admit that I've always found it vaguely disturbing, though. Probably because it reminds me of the corpse in River's Edge.

By: Wonderwoman

Wonderwoman — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:10:39 -0800

*sigh*

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:04:49 -0800

Marvelous site, thanks Burhanistan!

By: memexikon

memexikon — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:14:13 -0800

Have always loved Duchamp but why would anyone want to make sense of him? Time would better be spent not making sense of him.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:20:04 -0800

Time would better be spent not making sense of him. Well, this site really doesn't make "sense" of him, it just groups his major works in a chronological order and provides some analysis that you could easily make in person. That's a nice dada-wannabe statement, though.

By: memexikon

memexikon — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:46:30 -0800

Who needs dada when quantum zaum will conquer the world?

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:28:39 -0800

this is great. thanks! even if it is a double.

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:53:45 -0800

fabulous. enjoyed it alot. thanks.