‘Marcel Duchamp claimed that he had selected his readymades out of “visual indifference”, “a complete anaesthesia”, but obviously 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 was intended, in avant-gardist fashion, to shock.’
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...
