Art from Nonsense
Liz and Diana discuss Sirc’s use of Duchamp to get at what art means in an age where everyone can publish.
Music: Walk On Essen11, by mykleanthony from ccmixter.org/view/media/remix
Liz and Diana discuss Sirc’s use of Duchamp to get at what art means in an age where everyone can publish.
Music: Walk On Essen11, by mykleanthony from ccmixter.org/view/media/remix
September 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Diana and Elizabeth
I especially appreciate the time you took with Duchamp’s art. Looking at Nude Descending the Stairs and Fountain was essential for me in understanding the defining features of Sirc’s call for a new composition: motion and the readymade. You make a similar connection when you quote the two passages from Sirc. I would have liked in addition to hear how you’d put these ideas in your own words. You do discuss the idea of the work as “momentarily seen,” and in an interesting way. I interpreted that passage differently, reading momentary as “not having lasting value,” something Sirc comments on elsewhere. But I think your interpretation has value, too, though I think it might derive more from the way you place Sirc in conversation with our other texts (always love to see that). On the other hand, Sirc might agree about the “transparency” of the medium, and if you tie your analysis of writing back to the example of the Large Glass, you might be able to make that clear.
Thanks for the pomo writing exercise as well.
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