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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The Art of Masturbation
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Faces
Marcel Duchamp had many faces. Chance musician. Short film maker. Exhibition designer. Multi-media artist. Sculptor. Theorist. Painter. Global nomad. And of course, creator of the readymade. Duchamp thought in the round about the arts. We are inspired to do the same.
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