MARCEL DUCHAMP
For me the majority of Duchamp's works do not work so well visually but engage the mind, I’m sure he would love that his work as been resurrected but his disdain for the academic elitism would leave a bitter taste in his mouth, much as the elitist attitude towards ‘Nude Descending the Stairs’ did when it was rejected by his Cubist comrades, Duchamp brought opposition between Modernism and the Academic to show it as a dead end, he would have been happy that finally the slow unravelling of his work was revealed bringing about the results he had intended, but disgusted had he been alive today to see it taken to the level of high theory by the academia.
These Fragments I have stored against my ruins T.S.Elliot (Wasteland)1922
(Marcel Duchamp without whom Richard Mutt's Fountain blog would not exist). It is quite amusing that we discuss Duchamp in such detailed and academic ways, when analysing Duchamp’s influential contribution to contemporary art, it can not be deigned that his unique approach as inspired generations of new artists from Rausenburg to Hirst, and it is also true to say that Duchamp understood as early a 1912-1913, that the opposition between academic art and vanguard art was no longer a valid issue.
For me the majority of Duchamp's works do not work so well visually but engage the mind, I’m sure he would love that his work as been resurrected but his disdain for the academic elitism would leave a bitter taste in his mouth, much as the elitist attitude towards ‘Nude Descending the Stairs’ did when it was rejected by his Cubist comrades, Duchamp brought opposition between Modernism and the Academic to show it as a dead end, he would have been happy that finally the slow unravelling of his work was revealed bringing about the results he had intended, but disgusted had he been alive today to see it taken to the level of high theory by the academia.
(S.P.Oates Oct 2007)
These Fragments I have stored against my ruins T.S.Elliot (Wasteland)1922
Post Script T.S.Elliot was a Sexist, Racist, Bigot and his views do not represent the views of Richard Mutt's Fountain/Three Dollar Haircut or its editor!
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