Re: fountain cd

["dp" <dp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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 

that's exactly what i said!! 

 

> duchamp instead was questioning the artistic value of fountain. he was
> saying: "you idiots, its a pissing device!" 
 

 

funny how things have turned upside down and most people today think that
duchamp was aesthetically fascinated by those objects. 

(though in the end [but only then], he might have been...) 

how we percieve things is very different from how they came up. 

 

 -l-@dp 

 

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