http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/06/21/dada-deserves-better-than-duchamp/ Outside Ideas from Inside the Walker Art Center Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:46:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/06/21/dada-deserves-better-than-duchamp/#comment-32981 emil Fri, 25 May 2007 04:26:19 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/06/21/dada-deserves-better-than-duchamp/#comment-32981 You are making a mistake by so closely relating Marcel Duchamp to DADA, he worked with them put was never that much associated and definatly did not refer to himself as a dadaist. Marcel Duchamp thought up of many of his concepts single handedly and I place him in his own separate space in art history. The only reasons he is placed into dada is because it was the same exact time period and historians like to shove everything toghether, because he worked with some of the former dadaists or artists loosely tied to dada(i.e. Max ernst, Man RAY),because his work was shown in some of the dada magazines, and because his attitude resembled that of a dadaist. Marcel Duchamp was off doing his own thing, so if we are gunna argue about who holds the "DADA crown" or whatever, it doesnt make sense to throw Marcel Duchamp in there because he was an important artist of the time. You are making a mistake by so closely relating Marcel Duchamp to DADA, he worked with them put was never that much associated and definatly did not refer to himself as a dadaist. Marcel Duchamp thought up of many of his concepts single handedly and I place him in his own separate space in art history. The only reasons he is placed into dada is because it was the same exact time period and historians like to shove everything toghether, because he worked with some of the former dadaists or artists loosely tied to dada(i.e. Max ernst, Man RAY),because his work was shown in some of the dada magazines, and because his attitude resembled that of a dadaist. Marcel Duchamp was off doing his own thing, so if we are gunna argue about who holds the “DADA crown” or whatever, it doesnt make sense to throw Marcel Duchamp in there because he was an important artist of the time.

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