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Book Review
Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 199–200
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Reviewer:
Erkan, Ekin (Erkan, Ekin)
Subjects
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel
subjects:
Art theory / Dada
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General By Thierry de Duve. 456 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Reaktion Books, London, 2024), £30. ISBN 978–1–7891–4698–1. | :
Article
Tanguy's titles
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 932–45
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Author:
Mack, Stephen (Mack, Stephen)
Subjects
artists:
Tanguy, Yves / Sage (Tanguy), Kay / Dalí, Salvador
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
sources:
Nostradamus
subjects:
French art / Dada / Surrealism / Titles of works of art / Poetry / Literature / Breton, André / Translations
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Maman, Papa est blessé, by Yves Tanguy. 1927. Oil on canvas, 92.1 by 73 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Dame à l’absence, by Yves Tanguy. 1942. Oil on canvas, 115 by 89.5 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; photograph by Walter Klein; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, Dusseldorf).
Attributed works:
3. Inventions of the monsters, by Salvador Dalí. 1937. Oil on canvas, 51.4 by 78.4 cm. (© Salvador Dali, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí; DACS, London; Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
4. Poem-object, by André Breton. 1941. Carved wood bust of man, oil lantern, framed photograph, toy boxing gloves and paper mounted on drawing board, 45.8 by 53.2 by 10.9 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Le Diaposin de satin, by Yves Tanguy. 1940. Oil on canvas, 99.1 by 81.3 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. La Grue des sables, by Yves Tanguy. 1945. Gouache on paper, 46.1 by 31 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
7. Terre d’ombre, by Yves Tanguy. 1927. Oil on canvas, 99.1 by 80.3 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; |Detroit Institute of Art).
Short Notice
Rrose Sélavy as house painter
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 533-535
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Shorter Notice by:
Naumann, Francis M. (Naumann, Francis M.; Nauman, Francis M.)
Subjects
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel / Man Ray
dates:
1920-1929
media:
Photography
subjects:
Dada / American photography / French art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Fresh widow, by Marcel Duchamp. 1920. Miniature French window, painted wood frame, and panes of glass covered with black leather, 77.5 by 44.8 cm., on wood sill, 1.9 by 53.4 by 10.2 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; © Association Marcel Duchamp and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
11. Advertisement for the Sherwin-Williams Paints and Varnishes, 1912.
Attributed works:
12. Apolinère enameled, by Marcel Duchamp. 1916–17. Gouache and graphite on painted tin, mounted on cardboard, 24.4 by 34 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; © Association Marcel Duchamp and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
5. Marcel Duchamp as Rose Sélavy, by Man Ray. 1921. Scan from a vintage negative, 12 by 9 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; © Man Ray Trust and DACS, London; RMN-Grand Palais).
Attributed works:
6. Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy, by Man Ray. 1921. Gelatin silver print, 21.6 by 17.3 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; © Man Ray Trust and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
7. Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy, by Man Ray. 1923. Vintage gelatin silver print, 8.5 by 6 cm. (Private collection; © Man Ray Trust and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
8. Studio interior still life, by Man Ray. c.1923. Scan from a vintage negative, 9.3 by 11.7 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; © Man Ray Trust and DACS, London).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.8.
Article
Collage logic in Max Ernst’s ‘Woman, old man and flower’ (1923–24)
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 261-263
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Author:
Davis, Ellen (Davis, Ellen)
Author:
Kwartler, Talia (Kwartler, Talia)
Author:
Martins, Ana (Martins, Ana)
Subjects
artists:
Ernst, Max
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
styles:
Surrealism / Dada
subjects:
Technical analysis / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Collage (technique) / Techniques / Scientific analysis
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Woman, old man and flower (Weib, greis und blume), by Max Ernst. 1923–24. Oil on canvas, 96.5 by 130.2 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021).
Attributed works:
17. Reflected infra-red image of Fig.16, showing evidence of Fig.23 and one state that postdates Fig.23. (© 2017 MoMA, New York).
Attributed works:
18. X-ray image of Fig.16, showing evidence of one state that predates Fig.23. (© 2017 MoMA, New York).
Attributed works:
19. Transmitted infra-red image of Fig.16, showing evidence of one state that predates Fig.23. (© 2017 MoMA, New York).
Attributed works:
20. Map of zinc distribution in Fig.16, obtained by MA-XRF scanning, showing evidence of one state that post-dates Fig.23. (© 2017 MoMA, New York).
Attributed works:
21. Ubu Imperator, by Max Ernst. 1923. Oil on canvas, 81 by 65 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris; Bridgeman Images; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021).
Attributed works:
22. A rendezvous of friends, by Max Ernst. 1922. Oil on canvas, 130 by 95 cm. (Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Bridgeman Images; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021).
Attributed works:
23. Weib, greis und blume I, by Max Ernst. 1923. Reproduced as a ‘tableau détruit’ (‘destroyed painting’) in Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme (1938).
Exhibition Review
Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 283-285
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Reviewer:
Huber, Stephanie (Huber, Stephanie)
Subjects
artists:
Klutsis, Gustav / Rodchenko, Aleksander / Mayakovsky, Vladimir / Heartfield, John / Höch, Hannah / Hausmann, Raoul / Schwitters, Kurt
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
styles:
Constructivist / Dada
subjects:
Posters / Prints / Collages / Magazines (periodicals) / Propaganda
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented Museum of Modern Art, New York 13th December 2020–10th April 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. The hand has five fingers, by John Heartfield. 1928. Lithograph, 97.8 by 74.3 cm. (Merrill C. Berman Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
20. Advertising technique 1, design for a journal cover, by Nikolai Sedelnikov. 1930. Letterpress, 29.8 by 23 cm. (Merrill C. Berman Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
Opposite 18. Electrification of the entire country, by Gustav Klutsis. c.1920. Cut-andpasted gelatin silver prints, printed and painted paper on paper with gouache, ink, and pencil, 46.5 by 27.5 cm. (Merrill C. Berman Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Book Review
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Literature after Mallarmé
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 89-90
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Reviewer:
Green, Christopher (Green, Christopher)
Subjects
art literature:
Mallarmé, Stéphane
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Braque, Georges / Duchamp, Marcel
subjects:
Poetry / Art theory / Cubist / Dada / Avant-garde
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant- Garde Art and Literature After Mallarmé By Trevor Stark. 440 pp. incl. 10 col. + 60 b. & w. ills. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London, 2020). | :
Article
Plumbing fixtures: the vexing and perplexing case of R. Mutt’s ‘Fountain’
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 52-55
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Author:
Gammel, Irene (Gammel, Irene)
Subjects
art literature:
Varèse (nee Norton), Louise
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel / Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, Elsa / Stieglitz, Alfred
styles:
Dada
subjects:
Attributions
works:
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Exhibition Review
John Heartfield: Photography Plus Dynamite
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 878-881
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Reviewer:
Kriebel, Sabine (Kriebel, Sabine)
Subjects
artists:
Heartfield, John / Höch, Hannah / Grosz, George
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Photomontages / Photographs / Propaganda / Theatre design / Book covers
museums and institutions:
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
subjects:
Dada / Politics / German art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
John Heartfield: Photography Plus Dynamite Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2nd June–23rd August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Installation view of a portrait of John Heartfield from the 1960s and Marcel Odenbach’s twochannel video installation at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2020. (Photograph Roman März).
Attributed works:
2. Cover of Kurt Tucholsky’s Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, by John Heartfield. 1929. (© The Heartfield Community of Heirs / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020; Akademie der Künste, Berlin).
Attributed works:
3. Rifles, bayonets, daggers, cannons and hand, collection of cutout photographic material amassed by Heartfield, undated. 46 individual pieces, 1925–68, gelatin silver print, cut out. (Akademie der Künste, Berlin; photograph N.N.).
Article
Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’: the Baroness theory debunked
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 804-810
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Author:
Bailey, Bradley (Bailey, Bradley)
Subjects
art literature:
Gammel, Irene / Spalding, Julian / Thompson, Glyn
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel / Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, Elsa / Varèse (nee Norton), Louise / Wood, Beatrice / Roché, Henri-Pierre / Stella, Joseph / Stieglitz, Alfred / Demuth, Charles
collectors and dealers:
Arensberg, Walter C.
dates:
1910-1919
places:
New York
styles:
Dada
subjects:
Society of Independent Artists / Exhibitions / Attributions
works:
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp. 1917. Photograph Alfred Stieglitz, vintage silver print, 23.5 by 17.8 cm. (© Succession Marcel Duchamp/ DACS London 2019; private collection; courtesy Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Louise Varèse, by Brassaï. 1931. Gelatin silver print, 12.2 by 14.9 cm. (Louise Varèse Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Libraries, Northampton MA; © RMN-Grand Palais; DACS London 2019).
Attributed works:
3. Letter from Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp. 11th April 1917. 23 by 15 cm. (Jean Crotti papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.1, showing the information tag.
Attributed works:
7. Detail of ‘Marcel Duchamp at Play’ an essay by Louise Varèse. Late 1972. (Louise Varèse Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Libraries, Northampton MA).
Western art unattributed:
4. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. 1922. Photograph. (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Washington DC).
Western art unattributed:
5. Louise Varèse, Edgard Varèse, Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Crotti and Mary Reynolds photographed in Paris. 1924. (Jean Crotti papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).
Exhibition Review
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), Edinburgh
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 776-779
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Reviewer:
Thompson, Susannah (Thompson, Susannah)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Gris, Juan / Schwitters, Kurt / Ernst, Max / Agar, Eileen / Höch, Hannah / Heartfield, John / Blake, Peter / Kennard, Peter / Spero, Nancy / Sherman, Cindy / Schneemann, Carolee
artists:
Linder
museums and institutions:
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Great Britain
styles:
Dada / Surrealism / Cubist / Futurism / Abstract art / Pop art / Constructivist / Amateur
subjects:
Collages / Photomontages
Illustrations
Attributed works:
31. Scrapbook, by Mary Watson. 1821. Cut-up newspapers, printed illustrations and handwritten text, sheet 21 by 15 cm. (Manchester Metropolitan University; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
32. Still from Doll clothes, by Cindy Sherman. 1975. 16mm film transferred to video, 2 mins 22 secs. (Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
33. Pretty girl, by Linder. 1977. Magazine with collage, 24 by 18.5 cm. (Courtesy the artist and Modern Art, London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
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