Re: [idm] appropriation in art [was Digital Cutup Lounge on CNN.com]
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"Nude descending a Staircase" is actually one of my favorite paintings.
I apologize for picking nits, but that's actually an analytical cubist
painting, rather than dada-ist, or surrealist.
Two aspects of dadaism are nonsense and the element of chance(such as dropping
pieces of paper, and collaging them where they fall - a precurser to Pollack).
The two are not required to be present together for a work to be considered
dada, however.
Hence,the painting in question is not dada, because the depiction of the human
form descending a staircase is neither nonsense, nor random in nature.
Analytical cubism can be recognised by the dissection of the form into planes
in space, with some of the planes perhap tilted, abstracted, or distorted.
Duchamp's addition of the depiction of the movement of a form through space
over a period of time is somewhat unique within analytical cubsim, however.
donna summer wrote:
quoted 6 lines The Dada's thrived on public controversey and malcontent. One of the best> The Dada's thrived on public controversey and malcontent. One of the best
> known examples was the first 'Armory Show which was held to celebrate these
> radicals from Europe showing for the first time in NYC. That was where
> Duchamp's "Nude decending a staircase" became the "explosion in a shingle
> factory".
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