Encounter With Duchamp ...

DADA WITHOUT DUCHAMP / DUCHAMP WITHOUT DADA: AVANT-GARDE TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL TALENT by MARJORIE PERLOFF --At a Dada exhibition in Dusseldorf, I was impressed that though Schwitters and Picabia and the others had all become artists with the passing of time, Duchamp's work remained unacceptable as art. --John Cage, Interview, 1973 --From a distance these things, these Movements take on a ...

Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Born on 28 July 1887, in Blainville, near Rouen, France. French painter, poet, experimentator in films and chess player. He is the brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon, the sculptor, and of Suzanne Duchamp, the poetess and a half brother of Jacques Villon. In 1911 he was a member in the painters' circle known as the Golden Section , together with La Fresnaye, Leger, ...