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MArcel Ducamp, 'Fountain', 1917. Photograph; Alfred Stieglitz. From 'The Blind Man', no 2, May 1917, p 4.

Reinventing the wheel; the legacy of Duchamp’s readymades, 2013

A written (and therefore polished after the fact) version of a speech I made at the opening of ‘Reinventing the wheel’, an exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art, exploring the legacy of Duchamp’s readymade. Reproduction, repetition, saying the already said … these are the hallmarks of contemporary experience. The capacity to tolerate this […]

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