Wednesday, January 23, 2008

the bankruptcy of existing style


George Grosz Remember Uncle August, the Unhappy Inventor, 1919 Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.

Kurt Schwitters, Measure, 1932, drawing on printed paper, Tate Gallery, London.


Marcel Duchamp, Wedge of Chastity, New York 1954, plaster in two sections, partly painted, Museum of Modern Art, NY.


1942-1944, publisher, VVV, irregular; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. On the left is Marcel Duchamp's readymade of a female imprisoned behind chicken wire on the last page and back cover of VVV, No. 2/3. On the right is the cover of No. 4 of VVV.


Francis Picabia, Conversation II, c. 1922, watercolor on composition board, Museum of Modern Art, NY.



Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, white glazed ceramic plumbing fixture and painted signature, readymade porcelain urinal on its back. The Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris publishes a color photo of it.


Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even 1915-1923, oil and other media, Philadelphia Museum of Art.


Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913 / 1964, metal, painted wood, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.



Raoul Hausmann, Untitled, undated, lithograph and photographic collage on paper, 31.8 x 25.4 cm, Tate Gallery, London.



Francis Picabia, L'Oeil Cacodylate, 1921, oil on canvas, with collaged photographs, postcards and other papers, , Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.



twentieth century art movement which ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms.




DADADADA!!!