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Duchamp
21 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 565
One of Marcel Duchamp's most famous works is The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, not a painting but a transparent construction of wire and painted foil sandwiched between meticulously dirtied plate glass. Duchamp was born in 1887; by the time of his death in the late 1960s he enjoyed a pre-eminent place in the avant-garde art world. The practicing artist Terry Atkinson was only one of those who saw him then as the ultimate revolutionary, anti-establishment artist; but now Atkinson questions that judgment. He uses interviews from the early 1960s featuring Duchamp himself and a review of his whole artistic output to argue that Duchamp did not, in fact, succeed in establishing a viable counter-tradition to Modernism in art - and that Duchamp himself was well aware of the fact.
Marcel Duchamp Chocolate Grinder
Credits -
Director
Tony Coe
Presenter/Writer
Terry Atkinson
Open University/BBC
