Radical playfulness: The abstract music compositions of Marcel Duchamp


"What else is there to do when you’ve already fucked with just about every art tradition going? The mission to disrupt the art world never ends. Abstractism demands no surrender; a rule-breaker could never just return to making pretty pictures and fitting in with the crowd; they must keep marching forward into new, weirder, wilder places. Marcel Duchampmarched right around the typical parameters of what art is and wandered right into the neighbouring realm of music. But really, to him and his class of radical creatives, the words ‘art’, ‘music’ or any other categorisation meant nothing. They were on a mission to destroy those lines and smash through any and all borders so that all that was left was a kind of vague yet huge question of 'What does all this mean?' ..."
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