Monthly Archives: November 2011

The Art of Masturbation

Paysage Fautif     In 1946 Marcel Duchamp made a present of his own semen to his Brazilian lover, sculptor Maria Martins. Hard as it is to imagine, he preserved his spoor on Astralon, a forerunner to Acryllic, gave it a black satin backing, and framed it with wood. The naughty abstraction, Paysage Fautif, comments [...]

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