Tagged: DUCHAMP

March 17, 2021

DUCHAMP IS THE ORACLE

I keep coming back to Duchamp. Even as my reading and research continues to widen, Duchamp is the oracle. For example, I was re-skimming Tomkin’s absolutely excellent biography on Duchamp. I opened the book...

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July 23, 2015

SMELLS LIKE MALIC MOULDS

Malic Moulds are, of course, what Duchamp calls the forms he “drew” on his Large Glass. Given my almost fetishistic interest in Duschamp, I have a term that I use when the forms on...

“The creation and conservation of the universe are a function of a continuous motion whose origin is an acoustic vibration. The idea of the vibratory unity of the world has led philosophers to create a cosmogony in which this homogeneity of the universe is expressed in a system of concordances.” Schneider.

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” Whitehead

“In a sense, all pictures are impossible: they have a double reality. They are seen both as patterns of lines, lying of a flat background and also as objects depicted in a quite different, three-dimensional, space.” Marr.

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