What do you do when anything goes? Duchamp’s Telegram

Thierry de Duve’s bag of non-art illustration, 2015.
 

"The following conversation which took place at Kerri Scharlin’s 'salon' in New York on November 5, 2023, is published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the series of six articles that Michelle Kuo, then chief editor of Artforum, commissioned from Thierry de Duve and published in 2013–14. ... BARRY SCHWABSKY: Thierry, your book is divided into two parts and deals with two historical time frames. The first part concerns 1917 and the Independents’ Exhibition where we believe Marcel Duchamp, under the pseudonym Richard Mutt, submitted the artwork Fountain. And it was rejected. That’s the sending of the telegram, which you say was only widely received in the 1960s. And so the second half of the book really concerns the 1960s and several artists who then acknowledged receipt of this telegram. ..."




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