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Friends of the Art Gallery Film Festival – Marcel Duchamp

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Date: 27 August

Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Price: Friends Member $40/Guest $50

MARCEL DUCHAMP: A DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY

Marcel Duchamp (American, born France. 1887-1968) His proposition that art could be about ideas instead of objects was a revolutionary notion that still resonates with artists today.

Associated with Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, Duchamp’s main innovation was ‘ready-made art’. In 1913 his work, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, caused a furore at New York City’s famous Armory Show.

Robert Cook, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Photography and Design will deliver the APPRECIATING talk on the works of Duchamp, as an aperitif to the screening of Marcel Duchamp: A Definitive Biography.

Date: Monday 20 August
Time: 6 – 8pm (refreshments @ 6pm, lecture 6.30pm, followed by film)
Theatrette, AGWA (via James St Mall entrance)

Friends Member $40/Guest $50

 

Image:

Marcel Duchamp (American, born France. 1887-1968)
In Advance of the Broken Arm, August 1964
(fourth version, after lost original of November 1915)
Wood and galvanized-iron snow shovel
52" (132 cm) high
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gift of The Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp