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Book Review
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 510–13
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Reviewer:
Caws, Mary Ann (Caws, Mary Ann)
Subjects
artists:
Delaunay, Sonia / Duchamp, Marcel / Jellett, Mainie
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
styles:
Orphist
Reviewed Items
styles:
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 Edited by Vivien Greene. 216 pp. incl. 138 col. + b. & w. ills. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2024), $65. ISBN 978–0–89207–564–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Four part synchromy, number 7, by Morgan Russell. 1914–15. Oil on paperboard and canvas mounted on plywood, 4 parts, overall dimensions 40.6 by 30.5 cm. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Scala, Florence; Art Resource, New York).
Attributed works:
11. Disques de Newton (Étude pour ‘La fugue à 2 couleurs’), by František Kupka. 1912. Oil on canvas, 100.3 by 73.7 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; Artists Rights Society, New York; ADAGP, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. Painting, by Mainie Jellett. 1938. Oil on canvas, 76 by 64.6 cm. (Ulster Museum, Belfast).
Book Review
Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 199–200
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Reviewer:
Erkan, Ekin (Erkan, Ekin)
Subjects
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel
subjects:
Art theory / Dada
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subjects:
Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General By Thierry de Duve. 456 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Reaktion Books, London, 2024), £30. ISBN 978–1–7891–4698–1. | :
Book Review
Marcel Duchamp and the Lure of the Copy
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1183–1185
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Reviewer:
Hopkins, David (Hopkins, David)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
subjects:
French art / American art / Copies / Reproductions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Marcel Duchamp and the Lure of the Copy By Paul B. Franklin. 234 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Marsilio Arte, Venice, 2024), £30. ISBN 979–12–5463–138–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
28. Marcel Duchamp with an incomplete example of Boîte-envalise at Peggy Guggenheim’s townhouse, New York, in August 1942. (From Time Magazine, 7th September 1942).
Attributed works:
29. Rotorelief no.5 – poisson japonais from the series Rotoreliefs (disques optiques), by Marcel Duchamp. 1935. Cardboard disk printed recto and verso in colour offset lithography, diameter 20 cm. (© Association Marcel Duchamp; private collection).
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30. Peigne (Comb), by Marcel Duchamp. 1964, replica of 1916 original readymade. Steel comb with painted inscription, 16.5 by 3 by 0.2 cm.; box, 18.5 by 5.7 by 1.8 cm. (© Association Marcel Duchamp; private collection).
Exhibition Review
Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 84–87
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Reviewer:
Loreti, Silvia (Loreti, Silvia)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Braque, Georges / Gris, Juan / Matisse, Henri / Warhol, Andy / Paik, Nam June / Stieglitz, Alfred / Duchamp, Marcel / Van Vechten, Carl / Ligon, Glenn
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
subjects:
Stein, Gertrude / Patronage / Collecting / Language / Aesthetics / French art / American art / Music
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language Musée du Luxembourg, Paris 13th September 2023– 28th January 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Gertrude Stein, by Andy Warhol. 1980. Acrylic and screen print on canvas, 101.9 by 101.9 cm. (Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, and ADAGP, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).
Attributed works:
27. Gertrude Stein, by Nam June Paik. 1990. Antique television monitors, mixed media and video, 248.9 by 195.9 by 94 cm. (Nam June Paik Estate; courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).
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28. “Untitled” (Alice B. Toklas’ and Gertrude Stein’s Grave, Paris), by Felix Gonzalez- Torres. 1992. Chromogenic print pasted on cardboard, 12 by 17.8 cm. (Estate of Felix Gonzalez- Torres; private collection; photograph Suzanne Nagy).
Short Notice
Rrose Sélavy as house painter
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 533-535
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Shorter Notice by:
Naumann, Francis M. (Naumann, Francis M.; Nauman, Francis M.)
Subjects
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel / Man Ray
dates:
1920-1929
media:
Photography
subjects:
Dada / American photography / French art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Fresh widow, by Marcel Duchamp. 1920. Miniature French window, painted wood frame, and panes of glass covered with black leather, 77.5 by 44.8 cm., on wood sill, 1.9 by 53.4 by 10.2 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; © Association Marcel Duchamp and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
11. Advertisement for the Sherwin-Williams Paints and Varnishes, 1912.
Attributed works:
12. Apolinère enameled, by Marcel Duchamp. 1916–17. Gouache and graphite on painted tin, mounted on cardboard, 24.4 by 34 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; © Association Marcel Duchamp and DACS, London).
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5. Marcel Duchamp as Rose Sélavy, by Man Ray. 1921. Scan from a vintage negative, 12 by 9 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; © Man Ray Trust and DACS, London; RMN-Grand Palais).
Attributed works:
6. Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy, by Man Ray. 1921. Gelatin silver print, 21.6 by 17.3 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; © Man Ray Trust and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
7. Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy, by Man Ray. 1923. Vintage gelatin silver print, 8.5 by 6 cm. (Private collection; © Man Ray Trust and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
8. Studio interior still life, by Man Ray. c.1923. Scan from a vintage negative, 9.3 by 11.7 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; © Man Ray Trust and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.8.
Exhibition Review
Surrealism Beyond Borders
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 592-594
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Reviewer:
Richardson, Michael (Richardson, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Dalí, Salvador / Magritte, René / Ernst, Max / Duchamp, Marcel / Chirico, Giorgio de / Joans, Ted / El Janaby, Abdul Kader / Yayoi Kusama, b. 1929 / Rosenstein, Erna
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1940-1959 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Tate Modern, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Surrealism / Globalism / Politics / Postcolonialism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Surrealism Beyond Borders Tate Modern, London 24th February–29th August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. A circus rider’s dream, by Yayoi Kusama. 1955. Gouache on paper, 74.9 by 64.5 cm. (Private collection; © Yayoi Kusama; courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Singapore and Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London and Venice; photograph Elisabeth Bernstein; exh. Tate Modern, London).
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2. The seven sons of Lautréamont (and his dutiful beautiful daughter), by Ted Joans, Heriberto Cogollo, Agustin Cárdenas, Jorge Camacho, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Hervé Télémaque and Joyce Mansour. 1970–79. Ink on paper with poem, 76.2 by 21.6 cm. (Private collection; © Ted Joans Estate; courtesy Laura Corsiglia; photograph Buddy Ratner; exh. Tate Modern, London).
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3. Ekrany (screens), by Erna Rosenstein. 1951. Oil on canvas, 48 by 64 cm. (© Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Letter
‘Fountain’, Marcel Duchamp and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 312
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Author:
Ades, Dawn (Ades, Dawn)
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Brotchie, Alastair (Brotchie, Alastair)
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Spalding, Julian (Spalding, Julian)
Author:
Thompson, Glyn (Thompson, Glyn)
Subjects
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel / Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, Elsa
subjects:
Attribution
works:
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Book Review
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Literature after Mallarmé
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 89-90
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Reviewer:
Green, Christopher (Green, Christopher)
Subjects
art literature:
Mallarmé, Stéphane
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Braque, Georges / Duchamp, Marcel
subjects:
Poetry / Art theory / Cubist / Dada / Avant-garde
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant- Garde Art and Literature After Mallarmé By Trevor Stark. 440 pp. incl. 10 col. + 60 b. & w. ills. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London, 2020). | :
Article
Plumbing fixtures: the vexing and perplexing case of R. Mutt’s ‘Fountain’
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 52-55
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Author:
Gammel, Irene (Gammel, Irene)
Subjects
art literature:
Varèse (nee Norton), Louise
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel / Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, Elsa / Stieglitz, Alfred
styles:
Dada
subjects:
Attributions
works:
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Letter
Letters
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 4
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Subjects
artists:
Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, Elsa / Duchamp, Marcel
works:
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
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