Word: duchamp
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...organized by Poet Andre Breton, 64, who wrote the first surrealist manifesto in 1924 and still presides over a dogged group of followers in Paris. Breton chose the artists to be represented from all over Europe and the U.S. Gentle, 73-year-old Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp, who 37 years ago gave up painting in favor of chess, helped hang the exhibition at the gallery. The paintings were anywhere from 44 years to a few months old. showing that there is life of a sort in the old movement...
Some years ago, Marcel Duchamp himself said: "Movements begin as a group formation and end with the scattering of individuals." Yet the exhibit showed something else about the oldtimers. What once seemed sick now seems strangely sane: the surrealists were wild but seldom undisciplined, and with their hoses, their hens and their bicycles, they knew how to laugh at themselves...
...development of art and always will remain so," Dadaist Kurt Schwitters wrote in 1931. "I say this with all possible emphasis so that nobody afterwards can say: The poor man didn't even know how important he was.' " The Dadaists (among them Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst) took their name from a nonsense phrase, but thought they were making sense of a kind. In the disillusioned aftermath of World War I. Schwitters used the bric-a-brac of everyday life-fragments of newspapers, railroad maps, timetables, string, bottle caps, photographs-to assemble collages (see color) that...
Golden Bird," who instigated the revolution. Gertrude Drick (who carried black-bordered cards engraved WOE, "because Woe is me") discovered a way to the Arch's top, decided to stage a revolution, and invited Sloan, Marcel Duchamp and others. After an all-night revelry with lanterns, red balloons and liquor, climaxed by Woe reading her "Declaration of Independence," they left the Arch with balloons still floating from...