Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century finishes tomorrow at Monash University Art Museum.
It sent us back into the archives to look afresh at various old postcards and the like. Here's a postcard from 1935 that seems on beam, albeit resistant to a fix.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Mark 8:36 _ King James Version
To
see the wheel turning was very soothing, very comforting, a sort of
opening of avenues on other things than material life of every day. I
liked the idea of having a bicycle wheel in my studio. I enjoyed looking
at it just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace. It
was like having a fireplace in my studio, the movement of the wheel
reminded me of the movement of the flames.
- Marcel Duchamp : Arturo Schwartz, The Complete works of Marcel Duchamp, London: Thames and Hudson, 1969, p.442
- Marcel Duchamp : Arturo Schwartz, The Complete works of Marcel Duchamp, London: Thames and Hudson, 1969, p.442
In another card, from 1918, a Man o' Wheels looks at Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel and thinks to himself : "You are all right but - it's my turn now!"
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
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