Marcel Duchamp-Nude Descending a Staircase

This body in motion startled the art world in Paris and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Reportedly, one critic described the painting as "an explosion in a shingle factory." Just as Muybridge used multiple cameras to capture the motion and multiple perspectives, Duchamp presented a body in motion and from multiple perspectives. Duchamp is usually categorized with Cubism1 Cubism2 and Dada1 Dada2. Duchamp's later work is more associated with technology and the Surrealists and Futurists.

 

Marcelduchamp.org -- links to a variety of Duchamp sites, some scholarly, including images and music -- see Fresh Widow 3000 Etant-Donnes with rotating scenes from the installation constructed between 1946 and 1966, first displayed the year after his 1968 death. Encounter with Duchamp -- artist's studio,  invitation to digitize Duchamp Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- art in context exhibit accompanying publication of book by Francis M. Naumann Duchamp Timeline tout-fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal -- includes multimedia inspired by Duchamp and his work Muybridge and Duchamp X. J. Kennedy Poem

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