‘If Marcel Duchamp rejected painting, it also rejected him: he was a poor painter, as the first gallery, dotted with splotchy landscapes and unlovely nudes in the manner of Monet and Degas, makes clear.’
Hal Foster on the Duchamp retrospective at MoMA.
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In 1973, when a Marcel Duchamp retrospective was last staged in the United States, the critic Lucy Lippard declared...