Example sentences for: duchamp

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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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