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

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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)

  1. dmf says:

    Reblogged this on synthetic zero.

  2. dmf says:

    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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