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Posted by Iliodora Margellos

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[…] Here is the interview with the artist from our March 1993 issue, until then unpublished.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. […]





Panos Skouloudis posted

Άρθρο/Article: Introduction to the Readymade, by Graham Culter – Smith

(© artintelligence)

Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau project began in 1923 and lasted 
until his death in 1948. © artintelligence

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1966. Stainless steel and yellow Plexiglas.
Six 34 inch cubes, © artintelligence

 […] An examination of the evolution of aesthetic anarchism into institutionalised transgression begins with Duchamp’s Fountain, 1917. This work is critical because it has become an icon of deconstructive art—and, more particularly, deconstructive sculpture. It is also particularly relevant to the growth of installation art as a major movement in the 1990s, not least because installation art is intimately connected with the role of the gallery/museum. It was the Readymade, encompassed by the discourses of Dada and Surrealism, which revealed the gallery/museum as an aesthetic regime that determines what is and what is not art via processes of inclusion and exclusion…..