To Be Looked at From the Other Side of the Glass (Duchamp)

Posted on February 25, 2016 by zjb

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Tongue in cheek, Duchamp turned art into a pseudo technological artifact. Is that transformation the key with which to conceive his work writ large? To be looked at and to be looked through, but who has an hour to kill to look  through this thing wondering through the permanent collection of the Met.

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Zachary Braiterman is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His specialization is modern Jewish thought and philosophical aesthetics. http://religion.syr.edu
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3 Responses to To Be Looked at From the Other Side of the Glass (Duchamp)

  2. dmf says:
    February 25, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    Reblogged this on synthetic zero.

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  3. dmf says:
    February 28, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3386
    Creating and Challenging Utopia: new perspectives in Jewish history

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