6C Week 6 Images *

Front 1

Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy, 1921 [phonetically in French: 'Eros, c'est la vie' or "Eros, that's life"]

Back 1

what is it about the artists that makes an object art/special? Is it idea/construction/labor?; Duchamp's pseudonym as a woman; pun;

Front 2

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, no. 2, 1913

Back 2

cubism; featured in Armory Show, NYC, 1913;

Front 3

Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, copy of 1913 original

Back 3

readymade; making us challenge/think about what art is; provokes thought/conversion; what is distinction between art and commercial product; become reproduced=not original=he's aware it's ironic

Front 4

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

Back 4

readymade; society of Independent Artists exhibition; never viewed; notorious; making us challenge/think about what art is; provokes thought/conversion; what is distinction between art and commercial product

Front 5

Marcel Duchamp, The Large Glass or The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even, 1915-1923

Back 5

bride and bachelors; sexual=trying to display for bride/competing for her attention; relationships about sexuality; chance procedures

Front 6

Marcel Duchamp, The Green Box (notes and images pertaining to The Large Glass), 1934

Back 6

notes reflect the creation of unique rules of physics, and myth which describes the work; "hilarious picture" is intended to depict the erotic encounter between the "Bride," and her "Bachelors" gathered timidly below

Front 7

Marcel Duchamp, $2000 Reward, 1923

Back 7

questions identity/structure of art; what's an original or a copy if copies are as equally valuable; kept boxes of art (Box in a suitcase); Artists are wanted; joke

Front 8

Francis Picabia, Portrait of a Young American Girl in a State of Nudity, 1915

Back 8

Dada; machines=sexual; in New York; after WWI

Front 9

Francis Picabia, Amourous Parade, 1917

Back 9

Dada; machines=sexual; after WWI