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- AFFECT BEING THAT which keeps you there, that which never really becomes an object’s property or adornment, what then can it mean to hear why a work of art has stuck in the mud of another’s mind? I would never expect my affects to be yours. To be kept, as am I, by the Étant donnés is to be affected by something invisible.
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Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic assemblage Étant donnés: 1. La chute d'eau, 2. Le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas) has been described by the artist Jasper Johns as "the strangest work of art in any museum."
Sep 29, 2017 · Viewed through peepholes, Duchamp’s "Étant Donnés” (1946-1966), a mischievous mixed-media assemblage featuring a sculpted nude in a pastoral background, still poses a seductive riddle. Adagp...
Nov 14, 2017 · But between 1966 and 1968, room 403 served as the home of artist Marcel Duchamp’s final work: Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage (or, in English, Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). Visitors—if the artist had ever invited any—conceivably would have walked into the office space, only to be ...
Dec 1, 2000 · In Étant donnés, Duchamp has expressed himself ‘verbally’ by setting up completely recognizable elements or signs (the door, the naked figure, the landscape, etc.) that call out for decoding. This intellectual challenge must also be one of the work’s most important aspects, for Étant donnés is a work of art, despite its dislike of art ...
But the Philadelphia museum holds Etant donnes in such high esteem that, on the 40th anniversary of its installation, it has mounted a show -- simply titled “Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnes” -- that describes in great detail how Duchamp conceived and constructed the work.
MARCEL DUCHAMP’S. ÉTANT DONNéS. By Molly Nesbit. AFFECT BEING THAT which keeps you there, that which never really becomes an object’s property or adornment, what then can it mean to hear why a work of art has stuck in the mud of another’s mind? I would never expect my affects to be yours.
Oct 3, 2017 · Turkish artist Serkan Özkaya suggests in a new work that Marcel Duchamp's final work, Étant donnés, secretly functions as a camera obscura. Could a new meaning be revealed five decades after ...
