Dada and Duchamp

Question 1

Answer 1

Macel Duchamp

Three Standard Stoppages

1913-14

“Duchamp’s ironically non-“standard” yardstick, which changes its length from instance to instance, thus defies the coding that gives measurement its precision and its meaning”

Duchamp dropped 3 1-meter long strings from a 1m height and recorded them where they landed, and then cut stencils from the form they took to make “yardsticks”

Question 2

Answer 2

Francis Picabia

Portrait of a Young American Girl in the State of Nudity

1915

Mechanomorphic Portrait. Girl portrayed as a tool to ignite an engine.

Question 3

Answer 3

Marcel Duchamp

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bacherlors, Even

(The Large Glass)

1915-23

Question 4

Answer 4

Rrose Selavy

Duchamp’s alter-ego

Question 5

Answer 5

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

1917

A readymade, duchamp chose it from JL Mott Iron Works Showroom, set it on pedestal and submitted to American Society of Independent Artists, signed it R. Mutt (as in RiCH), and it was the only work that was rejected. The making of art is not significant, art can be CHOSEN, create new thought for object. “The Only works of Art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges. Complete aneasthesia , total visual indifference, lack of taste.

Question 6

Answer 6

Duchamp

Tu m’

1918

Question 7

Answer 7

Marcel Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

1912

Question 8

Answer 8

Hans Arp

COllage Arranged according to the laws of chance

1916-17

Question 9

Answer 9

Marcel Janco

Mask

1919

Question 10

Answer 10

Hugo Ball

In his Magical Bishop Costume at Cabaret Voltaire,

Zurich

1916

Question 11

Answer 11

Paul Klee

Einst dem Grau der Nacht enttaucht

Once Emerged from the Gray of Night

1918

Question 12

Answer 12

Paul Klee

Angelus Novus

1920

p.140

Question 13

Answer 13

Hannah Hoch

Cut with the Kitchen Knife throug the Beer Belly of the Weimer Republic

1919

p.175

Question 14

Answer 14

Raoul Hausmann

Mechanical Head

(Spirit of the Age)

1920

p.176

Question 15

Answer 15

Kurt Schwitters

Merzbild Rossfelt

Horse Fat

1919

Question 16

Answer 16

John Heartfield

The Meaning Behind the Hitler Salute

Little Man Asks for Big Gifts.

Motto: Millions Stand Behind Me!

1932

p.178

Question 17

Answer 17

First International Dada Fair

Burchard Gallery, Berlin

June 1920

p. 174

Question 18

Answer 18

Man Ray

Gift

1921

p.269

Question 19

Answer 19

Kurt Schwitters

Merz Column and installation shot

The Hanover Merzbau

1923

p. 223

Question 20

Answer 20

Sophie Taeuber-Arb

with her Dada Head

1920

p. 216

Question 21

Answer 21

Marcel Ducamp

Bicycle Wheel

1913

Readymade Bicycle Wheel

p.128