Συνέντευξη / Interview: An interview with Marcel Duchamp, by Jean
Antoine, translation copyright: Sue Rose, 1993
(©The Art Newspaper No. 27, April
1993 & theartnewspaper.com 2013)
Marcel Duchamp at the
Walker Art Center, 1965. © Eric Sutherland for the Walker Art Center |
[…] Here is the
interview with the artist from our March 1993 issue, until then unpublished.
Two years before Marcel Duchamp’s death in
1968, the Belgian director, Jean Antoine, filmed an interview with the artist
in his Neuilly studio in the summer of 1966.
This was shown on French-speaking Belgian television in 1971 in the programme
“Signe des Temps” (Sign of the Times)…[…].
This transcript, edited for The Art Newspaper, is the most faithful rendering
possible of the way Marcel Duchamp expressed himself. It is a remarkable
document that gives us a fresh and immediate insight into his mind. […]