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Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés Marcel Duchamp Art, Marcel Duchamp, Willem De Kooning, Philadelphia Museums, Outdoors Tattoo, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Surrealism Photography, Visionary Art, Conceptual Art

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." Permanently installed at the Museum since 1969, this three-dimensional environmental tableau offers an unforgettable and untranslatable experience to those who peer through the two small holes in the solid wooden door.

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The Silver Screen Surfer: The Dada Films Of Hans Richter Hans Richter, Hans Arp, Peggy Guggenheim, Francis Picabia, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Stieglitz, Willem De Kooning, Action Painting

Hans Richter was the most important film maker to come out of the German Dada movement before it moved to France and evolved into Surrealism. The Dada movement started during World War One in Zurich, Switzerland amongst writers and artists, mostly Germans and a few Rumanians, hiding out from the war. The ideology of Dada was a rejection of any and all bourgeois values that they associated with a society that seemed to be completely falling apart in the carnage of the first mass industrial…

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Irving Penn Portrait, Hans Richter, Irving Penn, L'art Du Portrait, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Richard Avedon, Foto Tips, Art Department

“I’m a surprisingly limited photographer,” Penn insisted to me, “and I’ve learned not to go beyond my capacity. I’ve tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I’ve failed.” Yet it is difficult to deny that Penn was the supreme studio photographer of the twentieth century. His artistry both emerged from and depended on his very specific, highly aestheticized commercial work.

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