‘Perhaps Duchamp was aware of his own limitations, or maybe he realised that his true interests lay elsewhere, not in “retinal” painting (as he put it dismissively) but in cerebral art: he was primarily an ideas man.’
Hal Foster on the Marcel Duchamp retrospective.
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In 1973, when a Marcel Duchamp retrospective was last staged in the United States, the critic Lucy Lippard declared...