Marcel Duchamp And Japanese Art

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Marcel duchamp and japanese art. By challenging the very notion of what is art his first readymades sent shock waves across the art world that can still be felt today. Eager to share marcel duchamp with japanese audiences shuzo takiguchi a japanese born poet critic and artist with ties to surrealist circles assembled an international portfolio of graphic works by various artists with strong ties to duchamp to accompany the deluxe version of his monograph to and from. In marcel duchamp and the art of life jacquelynn baas offers a groundbreaking new reading of duchamp arguing in particular that his work may have been informed by asian esoterism energetic spiritual practices that identify creative energy with the erotic impulse. Few artists can boast of having changed the course of art history in the way that marcel duchamp did.

Japanese apple tree was created in 1911 by marcel duchamp in post impressionism style. Duchamp challenged the values of traditional western art by exhibiting mass produced industrial products as art 400 years earlier in japan a tea master sen no rikyu 1522 91 found beauty in simple dishes or bowls made for everyday use. Marcel duchamp and japanese art attempts to provide a thorough overview of his career and to investigate similarities between his ideas and japanese art practices similarities that duchamp was most likely not even aware of himself. The second part seeing japan through duchamp encourages viewers to reassess japanese art through the perspective of duchamp s unusual vision.

Collaborative exhibition project between the tokyo national museum and the philadelphia museum of art. Marcel duchamp was born at blainville crevon in normandy france and grew up in a family that enjoyed cultural activities. Duchamp s ongoing preoccupation with the mechanisms of desire and human sexuality as well as his fondness for wordplay aligns his. The art of painter and engraver émile frédéric nicolle his maternal grandfather filled the house and the family liked to play chess read books paint and make music together.

Here the works of duchamp who is widely credited with utterly changing the course of 20th century art history are displayed alongside japanese art in order to re evaluate the latter through. Of eugene and lucie duchamp s seven children one died as an infant and four became.