Re: [microsound] fountain cd

[Bill Ashline <williamlashline@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/28/03 8:51 AM, "dp" <dp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> i agree with all of this except the conclusion: duchamp did not try to
> raise a political/economic issue (he usually never did in his art):
> he wanted to sell the piece!
> 
> and that's why he got mad at the organizers and started making
> all the replicas: to sell more.
> 
> he was making a point on art itself (as kim perfectly sums up), but i
> tend to exclude that there was also the consumption issue.

"This Neo-Dada, which they call New Realism, Pop Art, Assemblage, etc., is
an easy way out, and lives on what Dada did.  When I discovered ready-mades
I thought to discourage aesthetics.... I threw the bottle-rack and the
urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for their
aesthetic beauty."--Marcel Duchamp

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