New York as Art Center Flashcards
Dada
New York Dada 1915
started in Zurich, Switzerland
avant-garde, anti-war, rebellion against the norm
Marcel Duchamp
LHOOQ
1919
readymade - idea of choice, Mona Lisa postcard paints mustache
idea of the artist’s hand, signed postcard and defaced
makes art anything
Marcel Duchamp
R.Mutt
1919
lost the urinal after the Armory show
by Duchamps alter ego “R.Mutt”
changes the context of an object to make it art “ready-made”
popular culture object, re-shaped, re-presented in different way calling attention to lack of its uniqueness, changes its original function
celebration about what is made, discovery, something new
originally rejected from show
Marcel Duchamp
Chocolate Grinder no. 1
emphasis formal rather than conceptual
compressed space, gramentation, reduced detail, volume
Marcel Duchamp
Chocolate Grinder no. 2
much different, no sense of shadow, floating
reduced/rejected artist’s touch
Marcel Duchamp
Three Standard Stoppages
made with same length of string, depending on the curve creates different lengths bc moving up and down
principle of universality
forms obtained through chance
Marcel Duchamp
The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, even (The Large Glass)
glass broke in transit and Duchamp considered work finished bc of chance
9 mechanical bachelors exist in 3rd dimension
Bride exists in 4th dimension
sexual frustration, releases a cloud of love gasoline
chocolate grinder machine w/ helicopter allows bachelors to send the bride up to 3rd dimension chocolate seman
Francis Picabia
Portrait D’une Juene Fille Americaine dans l’etat de nudite
1915
portrait of a young, naked American woman
boldly inscribed “for-ever”
divorcing art from craft of making art
Morton Schamberg
Mechanical Abstraction
1916
Morton Schamberg & Elsa von Freytag
God
1918
assemblage - sewer pipe called traf on a mitre box used for sawing
seems both homemage, dissused, removed from its function, assembled
question what Schamberg had to do with it - photographed
Man Ray
The Rope Dancer accompanies herself with her shadows
1916
visually influenced by Armory Show
facets of cubism, movement in static painting
repetitive figures, inspired by circus, large blocks of color
Man Ray
Boardwalk
1917
Man Ray
L’homme
1918
Man Ray
New York
1917
Man Ray
Duchamp as Rrose Selavy
1921
duality
