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Marcel Duchamp
Geburtstag: 28. Juli 1887
Todesdatum: 2. Oktober 1968
Marcel Duchamp , eigentlich Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp, war ein französisch-amerikanischer Maler und Objektkünstler. Er ist Mitbegründer der Konzeptkunst und zählt zu den Wegbereitern des Dadaismus und Surrealismus. Nach ihm ist der Prix Marcel Duchamp benannt. Wikipedia
Zitate Marcel Duchamp
Quote from The Writings of Marcel Duchamp (Marchand du Sel) e.d. Michel Sanouille and Elmer Peterson, New York 1973, pp. 139-140
posthumous
Kontext: The spectator experiences the phenomenon of transmutation; through the change from inert matter into a work of art, an actual transubstantiation has taken place... All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work into contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
„I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.“
Quote by Harriet & Sidney Janis in 'Marchel Duchamp: Anti-Artist' in View magazine 3/21/45; reprinted in Robert Motherwell, Dada Painters and Poets (1951)
1921 - 1950
Variante: I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Quote from 'Time Magazine', 10 March 1952; as quoted on Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp
1951 - 1968
„Destruction is also creation.“
Quelle: Ref: en.wikiquote.org - J. Posadas / Quotes / War is Not the End of the World
1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Kontext: Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; to all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Kontext: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
Therefore, when I refer to 'art coefficient', it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in a raw state – 'à l'état brute' – bad, good or indifferent.
„The most interesting thing about artists is how they live“
Quelle: The Writings of Marcel Duchamp