The Duchamp Research Portal Digitally Unites Three Museum Archives

 
The Duchamp Research Portal houses nearly 50,000 digitized objects covering the artist’s life and work in France and the United States. 

“In 1964, towards the end of his life, Marcel Duchamp delivered the pithiest of artist statements, ‘Je suis un respirateur.’ Too apt that this ‘respirateur’ or ‘breather’ — one who creates art out of everyday life — should be the keeper of a seven-decade oeuvre of abstract paintings and provocative readymades that significantly shifted the plates of Dada, Cubism, and Conceptualism.So massive was Duchamp’s output that for years, his works, sketches, and papers have been scattered across the collections of various museums. But no more: this week, three institutions have merged their separate Duchamp archives for a digital resource set to illuminate one of the past century’s most seminal artists. ...”

 
Marcel Duchamp in a hammock at his residency in Cadaquas, Spain in 1965, by Man Ray.

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