Dada and Duchamp Flashcards by Natasha Tverdynin

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”

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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.

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Marcel Duchamp

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bacherlors, Even

(The Large Glass)

1915-23

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Rrose Selavy

Duchamp’s alter-ego

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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.

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