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But for others he's vital link with a tradition of impertinence dating back to dada in general and Duchamp's urinal in particular.
Duchamp worked for more than 12 years on the "Large Glass," devising pet names for its idiosyncratic imagery and writing detailed, incomprehensible notes.
: I realize I will never convince you of Sarah Lucas' worth (I think of her as Duchamp's daughter), but are you at least willing to concede that Charles Saatchi deserves points for taking a gamble on young artists instead of just buying de Koonings and Frank Stellas and the blue-chip stuff that other collectors favor?
These "ready-mades," as Duchamp called them, pose in a new way the oldest still-life question: Is it real or is it art?
An artist who takes a bite out of his own painting, and who derives his subject matter from a dream, is, in some sense, a private artist; and the later work, as Varnedoe has organized it, suggests an increasing absorption in a personal vocabulary composed of body parts; crosshatching patterns (an overworked motif of the 1970s); vases; clocks; skulls; specific borrowings from Duchamp, Picassso, Holbein, and a 16 th -century Grünewald altarpiece; little stick figures with bubble heads; and, in the most recent work, the image of a spiral galaxy.
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