MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Marcel Duchamp, Morton Livingston Schamberg, Francis Picabia
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New york city, like zurich, was a refuge for writers and artists from world war i. French artists marcel duchamp and francis picabia went to new york in 1915, during the war, where they hooked up with american artist man ray. The three of them became the center of radical anti-art activities in the u. s. Much of this activity occurred in stieglitz"s gallery, 291. The ny dadaists, unlike the disillusioned zurich dadaists and were less political. There was more irony and humour in their work. But, like the europeans, they wanted to destroy the aesthetic constraints of the old society", the national. Academy of design, with new modernists styles and ideas. In ny duchamp began exhibiting readymades (found objects) such as a bottle rack. He got involved with the society of independent artists, in. In 1917, when he was the director, he anonymously submitted fountain , a urinal signed r. mutt, to a group show of this society".
