t.tex's hexes: Duchamp

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Crypt of the Cramps: Lux Imitates Art Imitating Lux Imitating Other Art

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MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010

Lux Imitates Art Imitating Lux Imitating Other Art

(Above) "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2" (1912) by Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp was a French/American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period.[1] A playful man, Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much by writing, but through subversive actions such as dubbing a urinal art and naming it Fountain. He produced relatively few artworks, while moving quickly through the avant-garde circles of his time.

Duchamp once said, "The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
(Wikipedia)

(Above) "(Almost) Nude Lux Descending an Ivy"

"Lux is really into Duchamp. He has read every biography and autobiography written. I think if Duchamp hadn’t died in Lux’s lifetime, I’d think that Lux was reincarnated as Duchamp."
--Poison Ivy, 1995

Click link at top of post to see video of:

"Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs"
The Cramps

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Francis Bacon(Artist) & William Burroughs,(writer) in London 1989.

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Source Unknown.

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VALDESPINO Les animaux me surprendront toujours ! Affiche Anonyme.

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Mannequins in Marcel Duchamp's Surrealist Exhibition. Held at Beaux-arts Gallery in Paris, 1938.

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John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and Bill Evans working on the Kind of Blue sessions 1959

“It was because of Bill [Evans]’s influence, I think, that I always had classical music on around the house. It was so soothing to think and work by. I mean people would come by and expect to hear a lot of jazz on the box, but I wasn’t into that at the time and a lot of people were shocked to hear me listening to classical music all the time, you know, Stravinsky, Arturo Michelangeli, Rachmaninoff, Isaac Stern.” -MIles Davis

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Marigold (2006) 20" x 24" (oil on canvas) by Clifford Bailey

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